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HouseFresh disappeared from Google Search results. Now what? - An elaborate historical analysis and overview of Google search results and media landscape (housefresh.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From Forbes and Money content farms, to Google search algorithm changes promoting generic and generated content and big media platforms over specific results, to Google prioritizing ads, overpriced, and other worse results.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Sorry, you have been blocked

Instantly blocked by Cloudflare without even the usual cumbersome javascript probes. The web is getting worse so quickly that it's difficult to read the articles about how the web is getting worse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240523104932/https://housefresh.com/how-google-decimated-housefresh/

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago

Archive.org is essential. I donate regularly, they are a key part of the infrastructure of the internet now…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cloudflare is totally collecting data, why else would they want you to disable Javascript blockers or fingerprint detection.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The reason is because they use that stuff to help determine if you're a bot.

reCAPTCHA Enterprise interacts with the customer backend and webpages to trigger a sequence of JavaScript, HTML, and token authentication events.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

No it’s not, bots are scripted to do things. Cloudflare stops JavaScript blockers, it’s not the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

So maybe it could be that they set cloudflare so aggressive that's blocking all the bots including the googlebot