The colleague, who added @rustlang support to #syslog_ng left many years ago. Syslog-ng #Rust support was last touched 7 years ago. Still, there are regular downloads. Just #searchengines or there are real users? Does it actually work?
#SocialMedia#DigitalPlatforms#Personalization#Centralization#Search#SearchEngines: "In recent years, there has been a noticeable shift in the economies of search and information retrieval concerning how the products of giant platform companies consolidate and represent facts directly in their search results. Concomitantly, media, communication, and information scholars have recently refocused on how media technology companies variably create, collect, connect, and commercialize data related to facts about the world and how such processes have implications for how we know the world. Such approaches often counter popular narratives that seek to frame the problems of platforms in terms of personalization and personalized content. While research on the personalization afforded by media is widespread, platforms also engage in the centralization of facts by merging web data representing factual claims and offering answers directly in search engines and virtual assistants’ results and responses (what we refer to as “fast facts”). These processes considerably affect how knowledge is constructed and shared in a networked society. This special issue collects empirical investigative research on the platformization, exploitation, and centralization of facts while offering a variety of perspectives from which to study these developments, including semantic and infrastructural techniques. This article provides an overview of this field and contextualizes recent media studies on search and information retrieval in broader debates around facts and truth claims."
I don't know why it doesn't, I've submitted URLs and sitemaps. According to Bing's own Webmaster Tools, there are no specific problems, it's allowed by robots.txt, testing individual pages reports no issues, etc. And yet every URL is "Excluded" with no additional information provided. Bing support helpfully suggested I review the webmaster guidelines to increase my chances.
Searching for an exact page title will return other sites which link to it, but not the original post. :blobconfounded:
@rodhilton I wonder if this period, when the old search engines are ruining their performance with LLM nonsense, is the ideal moment for an alternative search engine to cut through.
I’ve started using https://Qwant.com more often as they are sometimes better than Google or Bing.
#EU#Google#Search#SearchEngines#ContentModeration#PoliticalEconomy#AI#GenerativeAI: "In this piece, which frames the special issue, “The State of Google Critique and Intervention,” we provide an overview of research focusing on Google as an object of critical study, fleshing out the European interventions that actively attempt to address its dominance. The article begins by mapping out key areas of articulating a Google critique, from the initial focus on ranking and profiling to the subsequent scrutiny of user exploitation and competitive imbalance. As such, it situates the contributions to this special issue concerning search engine bias and discrimination, the ethics of Google Autocomplete, Google's content moderation, the commodification of engine audiences and the political economy of technical systems in a broader history of Google criticism. It then proceeds to contextualize the European developments that put forward alternatives and draws attention to legislative efforts to curb the influence of big tech. We conclude by identifying a few avenues for continued critical study, such as Google's infrastructural bundling of generative artificial intelligence with existing products, to emphasize the importance of intervention in the future."
I know it’s only one metric, but it sure does look like Bing is having serious problems and that the size of its index has collapsed. Probably not so coincidentally, a bunch of websites like Techdirt have disappeared from it. https://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
People need to rethink "SEO". The kids aren't googling.
"About 40 percent of Gen Z — those born between 1997 and 2012 — prefers to discover information on platforms other than Google" - according to data presented...by Google.
If you're STILL not on TikTok, that's on you and your business. It's damn near 2025. No one is "feeling lucky".
The end of the Googleverse (www.theverge.com)
The last 25 years of Google’s history can be boiled down to a battle against the Google bomb. Is the search engine finally losing to its hijackers?