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BrikoX to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years ago

CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking

www.theverge.com

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CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking

www.theverge.com

BrikoX to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 2 years ago
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The “content pruning” is being done for SEO purposes.
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  • VHS [he/him]
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    19•2 years ago

    cnet’s record is terrible. first they do crapware bundling, then have factually incorrect articles written by machine learning algorithms, now this

    • VHS [he/him]
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      8•2 years ago

      i feel bad for any writer there who’s just trying to do tech journalism

  • @CaptObvious@literature.cafe
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    Seems like the real problem here is venture capitalists.

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      3•2 years ago

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    removed by mod

  • Em Adespoton
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    8•2 years ago

    They’re still on archive.org, right?

    • @CaptObvious@literature.cafe
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      Yes

    • Madison_rogue
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      Hint…the answer to your question is in the article.

  • @DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com
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    4•2 years ago

    Ah. Not that I needed it, but now I have further validation for having added cnet.com to the blocklist on my private search engine.

  • @usrtrv@lemmy.ml
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    Wouldn’t using robots.txt do the same thing without deleting content?

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