Google says deleting old pages to bamboozle Search is "not a thing!" as CNET erases its history. The tech news site removed thousands of old articles in a recent bid to appease Google and improve its performance in search results over the past few months.
  • exussum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    1 year ago

    They could have taken those articles out of the sitemap and get the same results.

  • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    I mean, this is bullshit but I have no issues with it?

    There is not a contract that the moment you post an article or a blog post you will host it until the end of time. And CNET has been around for basically as long as the modern internet (and are ahead of the curve on firing all their writers and using AI to generate articles based on press releases…)

    This is why it is important to support orgs like The Internet Archive/The Wayback Machine. Because even if we had some nonsense law that any large company has to host everything until the end of time: What about smaller outlets?

  • Savaran@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Jokes on them, now not only is there no reason to search for anything, but there’s no reason to go their site either.