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

Technology@beehaw.org – 119 points – 1 months ago

HouseFresh disappeared from Google Search results. Now what?

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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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/

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

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

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

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

Thank you for this! Lots of people online have pushed forward the idea that Google search results are not as useful as before. This was the first article that I've read that did a good job of quantifying what that actually means and providing context as to why it is happening.