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Google decimates Twitter search results after Elon Musk imposes limits on reading tweets (www.rawstory.com)

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Google has reportedly removed much of Twitter's links from its search results after the social network's owner Elon Musk announced reading tweets would be limited.

Search Engine Roundtable found that Google had removed 52% of Twitter links since the crackdown began last week. Twitter now blocks users who are not logged in and sets limits on reading tweets.

According to Barry Schwartz, Google reported 471 million Twitter URLs as of Friday. But by Monday morning, that number had plummeted to 227 million.

"For normal indexing of these Twitter URLs, it seems like these tweets are dropping out of the sky," Schwartz wrote.

Platformer reported last month that Twitter refused to pay its bill for Google Cloud services.

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[-] Landmammals@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago

Now do Quora.

[-] kat@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Quora has to be one of the most useless, misdirecting "resources" out there. No idea how much of this changes once you make an account, but every single question is filled up with ads and other people's responses to other questions. It looks so confusing and messy. Who would want to sign up for a site that seems so disjointed?

[-] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 14 points 1 year ago

All signing up for Quora gets you is email roundups that keep coming no matter how many times you unsubscribe.

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I finally managed to unsubscribe to that crap. Took me forever!

[-] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 6 points 1 year ago

I haven't gotten any in a while but I'm up to 9 Quora email addresses in my block list.

[-] TheSacredOne@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This became bad enough at my job (I'm a school sysadmin) that I blocked quora.com in our spam filter...students had a habit of signing up for it and like you said, it's damn near impossible to unsubscribe, let alone show 200+ kids how to unsubscribe.

[-] kluevo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There was a time quora was genuinely interesting/useful as an a2a site for all your 'expert opinion' questions. Now it's just another social media

[-] Matdan@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

And Pinterest. I want my quality searches back.

[-] OnlyAStarOnlyTheSea@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Use google and add "site:Pinterest.com" then search by images. Works better than Pinterest. Also works for Poshmark.

[-] evilgiraffe666@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago

Good advice except you forgot the minus symbol, this tip will ONLY get Pinterest links.

[-] foleac@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I think the point is to NOT have pinterest spam your search results that you cannot see without an account.

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