Comment by Velocifyer | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Velocifyer | Hacker News Reader

When searching "blog-ifyer velocifyer" on Google (as an attempt to go to https://blog.velocifyer.com ), I don't get my blog at all, but I do get Ai saying

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despite "A velocifyer" not even being a thing.

I have tried in Google Search Console to get the site indexed, but it hasen't been working.

Searching for "blog-ifyer velocifyer" on DuckDuckGo shows my blog as the very first result, along with some other things related to me, Velocifyer.

Google gave me a page of velocity frequent flyer results without your blog. Ecosia had your blog as the first result. Google search has become a very odd thing.

Google doesn't index my stuff either anymore. Even blogs. I guess they are 'low quality' or whatever, but meanwhile the LLM data companies hoover it up constantly and actually send users to the the sites.

They send users?

That seems surprising given that the complaint is generally that ai uses it without sending users

> despite "A velocifyer" not even being a thing.

It will be soon unfortunately.

Thank goodness English has backup copies - even though running a restore could be tricky.

I wanted to find a specific web-published story that I'd read years ago.

I knew the website (and it's old; it predates the term "blog"). I knew the context. I just didn't know the URL and I didn't want to page through entries manually like some antediluvian pleb.

So I used a search engine; I Googled it.

Zero results. Nothing. The search terms were common and there should have been thousands or millions of hits, which I would then be able pare down with better terms until my desired result was near the top. But there was nothing.

Zero response from the Google bot, too.

(The lack of bot response isn't unusual; the subject matter involved a man on a balcony and his gentleman sausage, and Google's bot tends to avoid non-Puritanical concepts. But the Google search engine of Not So Long Ago, Really would've been very pleased to present results that match the terms.)

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