Seeking help! No matter how many keywords/names u search related to this story the article doesn't appear on Google
This was a front page A1 story I wrote for WaPo on how smear campaigns and abuse women journalists endure are a press freedom issue. Can someone explain why the article does not appear on Google? washingtonpost.com/investigati…
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Taylor Lorenz
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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch)
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Even searching for the URL directly in Google won't show it. Links to posts that link to the article.
The only reason I can think is this feature somehow made it on their suppression list. This is just wrong.
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •That’s disturbing!
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mhoye
in reply to fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 • • •It's difficult to reconcile "democracy dies in darkness" with "content=noindex, content=noarchive".
Carolyn
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Heechee Hacker
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Does wWPo’s seo suck? (Probabaly, I don’t know) Any way to get them to look into it?
Too bad google bombing doesn’t work anymore. We could mount a linking campaign.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •David August
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •not sure this is what may be playing a role, but WaPo’s robots.txt file (one way webmasters can request robots handle things on their domain) has this:
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
That is requesting any machine that makes a request with the user-agent set to “Google-Extended” not access (and therefore not index) anything at all on that domain.
Odd thing to have in a robots.txt file, but it is there at washingtonpost.com/robots.txt
MartinL_NZ ☑️
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Steve's Place
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •I found it in duckduckgo, which is Bing with a better tailor. But it's buried without adding "Washington Post" to the search. It popped right up when I did.
I didn't find it on Alexandra search, but they don't seem to include Washington Post articles. They have some bizarre sources I just noticed. Newt Gingrich 360? Wtaf?
Google's algorithms must not like you.
Maybe the fediverse needs a search engine.
Forth Co-Processor
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Here we have soe historic alleged #censorship
by #google.
uncensorednews.us/google
Alleged Censorship By Google and YouTube
uncensorednews.uspublictorsten
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •It's marked as "noindex".
You can look up the source code.
<meta name="robots" content="noindex"/><meta name="robots" content="noarchive, max-image-preview:large"/>
zl2tod
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Perhaps because Bezos prefers plastique women over the real thing.
mastodon.online/@davidaugust/1…
David August
2024-12-22 22:40:18
NotErsichtlic
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •JamesLundblad
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •seems like it's not in the index, but you have to be the owner of the site to use the tool to inspect the index I think.
support.google.com/webmasters/…
Ema
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •freediverx
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •JamesLundblad
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •if you do a site search on Feb 23 some articles don't have the "noindex" tag.
site:washingtonpost.com/investigati…
Daanlo
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •I got it on first page of Google search results but not via Washington Post
I used search “by Taylor Lorenz” women journalists.
However, I couldn’t get the link to open.
unifor2000.ca/these-women-jour…
Bruce_Ak
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Search engine AI learns many people don’t click on links to paywall sites
So they drop in the rankings and get clicked /featured even less
Elaine Anderson
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •𝕎𝕦𝕝𝕗𝕪
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Google has been memory holeying results that do not fit the narrative.
The beauty of having the search engine, it can become accidentally on purpose
an un-search engine. Google keeps its algo super secret as mane SEO experts will attest to...
...try Duck duck go, often it's better for subjects google wants to forget.
Shirley Eugest
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Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL)
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •I suspect the problem is that #WaPo is owned by #billionaire #Bezos. He prevented the paper from endorsing #KamalaHarris' campaign in order to curry favor from #convictedfelon #DonaldTrump. WaPo lost credibility because of that, to the detriment of many fine journalists working there.
Maybe the article needs to be published by some other outlet that is more trustworthy.
Update: The simple reason is that WaPo puts "noindex" tags on their pages!
Old Fucking Punk
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Meanwhile, Taylor learns HTTP.
Get that website up and working Taylor. Even if it's just a splash page.
Erik Uden 🍑
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Never in my life have I seen an article that doesn't immediately appear when searching for the exact title.
Weirdly enough, it doesn't appear on DuckDuckGo too. Could it be that WaPo turned off indexing for this?
4censord (no more dect:[)
in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •there is a meta: noindex,noarchive tag in there, so kinda seems like it?
In the head, look for: (its html escaped else mastodon removes it)
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
<meta name="robots" content="noarchive, max-image-preview:large">
Erik Uden 🍑
in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •Hey @taylorlorenz, this may be even worse than you thought: The Washington Post un-indexed the article, so that no search engine is allowed to index it.
I used this index checker to both check an arbitrary WaPo article and the one you sent. You could try more articles to see if this is more of a common thing.
The way it looks to me now is that the Washington Post basically shadow-banned this article.
Google Index Checker, Check your web pages are indexed or not
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Erik Uden 🍑
in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •and Doug @dougv found that it's served with a
noindextag!hachyderm.io/@dougv/1137005951…
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2024-12-23 05:56:38
Erik Uden 🍑
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in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •The free version stops at 500 pages
bison ✅
in reply to Erik Uden 🍑 • • •Doug Valenta
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Block Search Indexing with noindex | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google for Developers
Google for DevelopersDoug Valenta
in reply to Doug Valenta • • •Erik Uden 🍑
in reply to Doug Valenta • • •@dougv Holy cow. Most other articles don't have this, right?
mastodon.de/@ErikUden/11370270…
Erik Uden 🍑
2024-12-23 14:54:12
Hega
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •On DuckDuckGo I see it when I put 'Story Killers:' in front of the title. It's not on top though, it's one among other 'Story Killers' articles. I guess that's because it's already a year old.
It does show up like on DuckDuckGo if I put the whole thing in quotation marks.
Court Cantrell will not comply
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Unknown parent • • •Proving again it only takes a couple words to make something "disappear" off the internet...
Zack Whittaker
Unknown parent • • •Expertenkommision Cyberunfall
Unknown parent • • •Someone might crawl those newssites, builing an index of “ni indexed” topics?
Looking at @ZEITONLINE
@evawolfangel
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FinchHaven
Unknown parent • • •This makes me laugh almost without end
robots dot txt were put in use in the late 1990s if memory serves -- mine at my original web site dates to about 1998-99
Big news then was that Google was *not* respecting them, and was pulling down whatever it damn well pleased
Fast-forward 25 years and Google is still doing what it damn well pleases, but probably honoring private, backdoor deals/agreements as to whose web sites or web pages it will or will not expose
cc Jeff Bay-zohsss...
cc @taylorlorenz
shichimi
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •lemgandi
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Hm. First link on Duck Duck Go for the headline "These women journalists were doing their jogs. That made them targets." is to a site called "TV News Check". Which contains a short blurb and a direct link to the article, published February 2023.
A search for "Women journalists washington post" brings up nothing for at least 6 "More Results" screens down.
Sascha Raubal
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Your direct link works, but I see only the first three paragraphs.
On RSN I see all:
rsn.org/001/these-women-journa…
So … let's share that link. The story is too important to suppress it, right?
These Women Journalists Were Doing Their Jobs. That Made Them Targets.
www.rsn.orgFunGuy2PlayWith
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Erik van Straten
in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •: fwiw with so many responses, google.com found it (I'm in the Netherlands) as number 10 (bottom of first page) using the following search string (not mentioning wapo or washington post):
"These women journalists were doing their jobs. That made them targets." "Taylor Lorenz"
#Google #SearchEngines #SearchEngineEffectiveness
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