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Google no longer finds new sites automatically? That might explain why it's been so trash the past few years.

I remember running a few websites back in the day, and with zero interaction with google all of the pages showed up in the search index a day or two after publishing at most.

lol

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36195600 apparently

The only possible outcome if for them to shutdown this API or make it work as documented. There's already at least 10+ SaaS offering this as service.

Eh, you can get google to index your site by just submitting a site map, it just takes a little longer.

If "a little longer" is six months+, you're absolutely right.