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Reply to Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content by Vincent Schmalbach
Selectivity is long overdue. Marginalia, Stract, and Teclis feel like a breath of fresh air for broad short-tail queries because they downrank or skip pages full of ads, trackers, scripts, and even SEO. However, Google’s selectivity can’t penalise such criteria as that would conflict with its ad business.
Google has a bias against new sites. This makes sense, given their spam potential. I disagree with your argument that a bias against new sites is a pivot away from Experience, Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (EEAT): it takes time for a website to become an authority and earn trust. If delayed indexing of new sites is wrong, then the problem lies with EEAT. I argue that EEAT is a good framework for an answer-focused engine, but a bad framework for a discovery- or surfing-focused engine like Marginalia or Wiby, respectively.
Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #Google #SearchEngines
Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content - Vincent Schmalbach
Picture this: It’s ten years ago, and you’ve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google.Vincent Schmalbach
Leute, wenn ihr eure Privatsphäre wenigstens ein bisschen schützen wollt, dann benutzt Werbe- und Trackingblocker [3]. Gegen solche Szenarien wie »Databroker Files« [2] kann man sich schon relativ einfach schützen. [1] 👇
[1] kuketz-blog.de/android-werbung…
[2] netzpolitik.org/2024/databroke…
[3] kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke…
#tracking #dsgvo #advertisingid #google #apple #android #ios
Databroker Files: Firma verschleudert 3,6 Milliarden Standorte von Menschen in Deutschland
Datenhändler verbreiten die Standorte von Menschen in Deutschland – teils sogar kostenlos, wie Recherchen von netzpolitik.org und BR zeigen.netzpolitik.org
»Firma verschleudert 3,6 Milliarden Standorte von Menschen in Deutschland«. Seit Jahren erwähne ich in fast jedem Artikel, in dem es um Tracking und Android-Apps geht, dass die Google Advertising-ID ein personenbeziehbares Datum ist. Dies wurde nun erneut eindrucksvoll bewiesen. 👇
Weg aus der Misere: Verwendet googlefreie Systeme wie #GrapheneOS und nutzt Werbe- und Trackingblocker.
netzpolitik.org/2024/databroke…
kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke…
#tracking #dsgvo #advertisingid #google #apple #android #ios
Databroker Files: Firma verschleudert 3,6 Milliarden Standorte von Menschen in Deutschland
Datenhändler verbreiten die Standorte von Menschen in Deutschland – teils sogar kostenlos, wie Recherchen von netzpolitik.org und BR zeigen.netzpolitik.org
+1 reason why you must stop using Chrome and, if possible, Chromium browsers
(Upd: link to a post in Fediverse with tech details fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/…)
(Upd 2: MS Edge and Arc browsers seems to have this issue; #Vivaldi also has it but it can be disabled; Ungoogled Chromium doesn't have it at all)
#Privacy #Tech #Technology #Browser #Chrome #Chromium #Firefox #Google #BigTech
It turns out Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on `*.google.com` access to private APIs, including your current CPU usageYou can test it out by pasting the following into your Chrome DevTools console on any Google page:
chrome.runtime.sendMessage(
"nkeimhogjdpnpccoofpliimaahmaaome",
{ method: "cpu.getInfo" },
(response) => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response, null, 2));
},
);More notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/h…
hangout_services/thunk.js
It turns out Google Chrome (via Chromium) includes a default extension which makes extra services available to code running on the `*.google.com` domains - tweeted about today [by Luca Casonato](https://twitter.simonwillison.net
Computer hardware maker #Zotac exposed customers' RMA info on Google Search
Misconfiguration of permissions folders holding customer info related to RMAs have been indexed by search engines like #Google. As a result, it has shown up on SERPs.
Information leaked includes invoices, addresses, and contact information.
Fun fact: Security Misconfiguration is number 6 on the OWASP Top 10 Web app Security Risks.
🔥🚨 #AI energy consumption keeps rising so #Google drops claims of being carbon neutral.
At Tuta we are committed to making the web better, more #sustainable and more #private! 💪
👉 Read full story here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
One of the selling points of Google’s flagship generative AI models, Gemini 1.5 Pro and 1.5 Flash, is the amount of data they can supposedly process and analyze. But new research suggests that the models aren’t, in fact, very good at those things. “While models like Gemini 1.5 Pro can technically process long contexts, we have seen many cases indicating that the models don’t actually ‘understand’ the content,” Marzena Karpinska, a postdoc at UMass Amherst. TechCrunch has more: flip.it/wW5pRm
#Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Google #Gemini
Follow @Techcrunch for more breaking tech news and analysis.
Sparito da #Google, il Caso #Tutamail e il Potere Invisibile dei Grandi e il DMA #1274 - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=_MbK03f0XZ…
Sparito da Google: il Caso Tutamail e il Potere Invisibile dei Grandi e il DMA #1274
Un servizio di posta elettronica criptata, Tutamail, sparisce improvvisamente dai risultati di ricerca di Google per due mesi. Come è possibile che una singo...YouTube
Ready to break #Google's monopoly?
#Chrome Manifest V3 is here to stop you from blocking ads.
Here are great alternatives:
✅ #Firefox
✅ #Duckduckgo
✅ @torproject
✅ More options: tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro…
Which one did you pick?
Best Private Browsers 2024 | Top 10 To Stop Trackers
When it comes to most secure browsers Firefox is the best alternative to Chrome - and, no, incognito mode doesn't cut it.Tutanota
On this day five years ago, I learned about the #Google #libcurl fork named libcrurl (!).
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/06/19…
(old blog post)
It was subsequently cancelled and never got anywhere.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Tuta Mail's #Google Ranking Mysteriously Restored After Announcement to Take Legal Actions
Read more:
👉 tuta.com/blog/unchecked-power-…
Tuta Mail's website ranking mysteriously restored after Google’s silence on downranking
Calling out the unchecked power of Google: We need accountability and transparency.Tutanota
YouTube makes #ads unskippable!
#Google is planning to start merging ads into #YouTube before they leave the server 🙈
Is it even possible to enjoy YouTube without ads? Check out our wrap-up here 👉 tuta.com/blog/youtube-adblock-…
#adblocker #annoyingads #privacymatters
YouTube will stop ad blockers by merging ads into videos on the server-side
In their on-going fight against ad blocking technologies, Google plans to begin merging ads into YouTube videos before they leave the server.Tutanota
It really feels like companies like #Google will do anything to "not get behind in the #AI game" no matter if it hurts their image, spreads mis-information or even suggests dangerous things
Most companies developing AI don't even fully understand it's process, how do we ever expect to explain this to lawmakers, not even talking about the time it takes for them to take action
Did you know that #XScreenSaver (yes, the collection of screensavers for X11) is available on Android?
And that #Google requires it to have a privacy policy in order to be available in the Play Store?
And that the maintainer chose to crowd-source a privacy policy where every item starts with "Unlike Google"?
It's become a great list of all the privacy violations Google did and still does. And I thought that it's gonna be long, but it's even longer than I imagined.
jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.ht…
"Google’s DMA compliance plan is a sham. […] If Apple’s proposal was a slap in the face, Google’s is a middle finger — both to the European Commission and to you."
proton.me/blog/google-bundling…
#Google #DMA #monopoly #gatekeeper
Google’s DMA compliance plan is a sham
Google is defying the EU Commission and refusing to give people more control over how they use their Android phones.Andy Yen (Proton)
The fastest non-Google controlled web rendering engine Servo is trying to compete with only $1.6k funding a month:
phoronix.com/news/Servo-Engine…
Yes, they did have an NLNet grant, but that ran out.
If we want an alternative to Blink/Chrome, we need to fund it. This is a project where even a tiny regular amount could yield oversize returns:
#Servo #Rust #Blink #Google #Chrome
Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.Servo
The whole #Google #Chrome #Manifestv3 fiasco reminded me...
Is there a good way to run #ublockorigin on #android? Or something like it?
And related, as I happen to prefer the #chromium UX over the one offered by #firefox .. is there a Chromium fork which will retain v2?
Boosts appreciated
Google operated on the social contract of providing traffic to sites in exchange for content. Now that #Google is switching to #AI answers synthesized from the content and effectively cutting traffic is there even a point in participation?
Google will keep bringing load to the sites without providing any traffic.
I suspect we are about to see first robots.txt snippets banning Google crawlers like other AI bots really soon. And eventually outright banning Google ips altogether.
I wonder whether we’re also about to see a surge of old-school search engines. With modern technology it’s feasible to run a small search engine from a living room (e. g. kukei.eu) on an off-the-shelf hardware and open source software. It doesn’t take the whole Google to operate a decade-old (feature wise) Google search engine. It might be feasible to run a good search engine on small resources that can be paid by simple ads or small subscriptions.
platformer.news/google-io-ai-s…
Google’s broken link to the web
With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the backgroundCasey Newton (Platformer)
I'm being asked how important this apparent leak of ~14,000 #Google Search related parameters really is. My take is that it's interesting, but personally I don't think it's very important. The reason is pretty obvious. The list apparently tells us nothing about which of these factors are really used by Google when ranking sites, or if they were, how they were weighted, when they were used, and ... well you get the idea.
It's completely reasonable to create an extremely exhaustive list like that even if you never end up using most of those factors. That's the way I would do it -- figure out every possible factor and then over time mix and match from various of them as necessary, especially to thwart black hat SEO. So again, I think this leak is intellectually fascinating, but attempts to use it against Google are (again, in my opinion) probably off the mark.
New blog post: Takeaways from the Google Content Warehouse API documentation leak.
A leak of all of Google’s 14,000 ranking factors recently hit the news. I go over some of the ones that people are eyeing more closely, and end with a cold shower to cool down some of the misleading hype from the SEO industry.
Excerpt:
We only have API documentation. We don’t know about any hidden knowledge, whether any of these factors have a ranking weight of “zero”, whether any of these conditionally apply, which are only used internally for testing…Serious conclusions drawn from this leak are, to some degree, speculation.
Takeaways from the Google Content Warehouse API documentation leak
My thoughts on Google's Content Warehouse API doc leak, what we can learn from its ranking factors, and why the following SEO hype is overblown.Seirdy’s Home
Hey Fedi! A thought experiment:
How much would it cost in HW and bandwidth to replicate the original Google search? (Just crawl, index, search the index, display results. Only text in v1.)
I suspect it wouldn't be too expensive.
We could implement this, slap some collective QA on top of it, crowdfund the servers.
Thank you to whoever made youwouldntsteala.website/edito… 🙌
You Wouldn't Edit a Meme - Online Meme Generator
Generate your own memes in the style of 'you wouldn't steal a car', 'you wouldn't download a house', etc.youwouldntsteala.website
23.5.2024 - Der Tag an dem offensichtlich wurde, dass Bing praktisch die einzige verbliebene Alternative zu Google ist. Alle anderen "Suchmaschinen" sind Bing mit Schlapphut und Trenchcoat. 🕵️
heise.de/news/Bing-DuckDuckGo-…
#ZerschlagtDieMonopole #microsoft #google #bing #duckduckgo #qwant #ecosia #startpage
Bing, DuckDuckGo und weitere Suchmaschine nicht erreichbar
Einige Suchmaschinen, die nicht Google sind, funktionieren derzeit nicht. Betroffen sind Bing, DuckDuckGo und Ecosia.Eva-Maria Weiß (heise online)
Die #ElsterSecure - sicherer Login #App
wurde laut #Google#Play schon mehr als 1 Mio mal heruntergeladen.
Aber es scheint bisher keine einzige Analyse auf #Exodus#Privacy zu geben...
reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/…
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
#digtialSelbstbestimmt#digitalePrivatsphäre#Steuer#Elster
ElsterSecure - sicherer Login – Apps bei Google Play
Mit ElsterSecure können Sie sich komfortabel und sicher in MeinElster einloggen.play.google.com
#Android is getting an AI-powered #scam call detection feature
Will be powered by Gemini Nano, which #Google says can be run locally and offline to process "fraudulent language and other conversation patterns typically associated with scams" and push real-time alerts during calls where detected red flags are present.
It will be opt-in, but Gemini Nano is currently only supported on Google Pixel 8 Pro and Samsung S24 series devices.
theverge.com/2024/5/14/2415621…
Android is getting an AI-powered scam call detection feature
Google is testing a new call monitoring feature that warns users if the person they’re talking to is likely attempting to scam them and encourages them to end such calls.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
Chromebooks already have great screen reading capabilities built in...
Awww Google, how cute of you. Great? Nope. Next time, remember. Nothing about us, **without us**. ChromeVox has barely been updated in *years*, just like VoiceOver for Mac, and Narrator. ChromeVox barely has any options for fine-tuning verbosity, keyboard commands, pronunciation, and some keyboard commands, like Search + Control + A for accessibility actions, aren't even well-documented. I should know. I had to use an Acer Spin 713 for a good 3 months as my primary laptop. So kindly stop talking, then ask, then act before you speak further.
"Updated keyboard shortcuts and first-letters navigation in Google Drive"...
First letters navigation? Come on. Any blind person can *tell* that this wasn't written by anyone who uses these technologies.
And nowhere in this article is anything new for ChromeVox. See? This is the kind of, frankly, bullshit that I hate on GAAD. Just shut your mouth and listen for once.
blog.google/outreach-initiativ…
#Accessibility #blind #google #ChromeOS #Chromebook #ChromeVox #GAAD
How we’re building accessibility into our Chromebooks around the world
Read about our partnerships in Kenya that bring Chromebooks to low vision and blind children, and learn more about new Chromebook updates for Global Accessibility Awaren…Sara Basson (Google)
Gemini’s integration with TalkBack, Lookout's Find mode, Look to Speak, etc.:
blog.google/outreach-initiativ…
#Accessibility #Google #GAAD #AI #TalkBack
8 new accessibility updates across Lookout, Google Maps and more
For Global Accessibility Awareness Day, here’s new updates to our accessibility products.Eve Andersson (Google)
Google’s Gemini AI is coming to #Gmail, whether you like it or not. 🤖
Will you use this new feature - at the price of giving #Google all your data?
👉 tuta.com/blog/google-gemini-ai…
Don't want Gmail to sift through your emails? Too late, their AI is going to do it.
Google's Gemini AI is coming soon to Gmail where it will be able to craft AI generated responses, summarize conversations, and more.Tutanota
Sh*tf*ck 😳🔥😔
#ChatGPT consumes 25 times more #energy than #Google
"Energy consumption by Artificial Intelligence (#AI) is rising rapidly: AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030, according to some calculations."
brusselstimes.com/world-all-ne…
ChatGPT consumes 25 times more energy than Google
"The negative impact of AI needs to be mitigated. Business leaders should be aware of the growing environmental impact of AI and take action."www.brusselstimes.com
