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   Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 04:31:47 JST Matthew Skala

   I recently discovered to my displeasure that Google has quietly dropped large swathes of my personal site from its index - including nearly all of my fiction, and some of my most important non-fiction pieces. Note this is *not* just a matter of deranking pages; the pages are actually not in the index at all, invisible to even the most carefully targeted search queries. Search Console reports them as "Crawled - currently not indexed," which means absolutely nothing.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 04:31:47 JST feld

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     @mattskala I seem to be able to find your site and specific works with Kagi
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 04:36:43 JST feld

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     @mattskala I think Google peaked and is on its decline especially after the coming antitrust stuff is sorted out, so it will be rocky for the next 5-7 years but we'll come out alright
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     Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 04:36:44 JST Matthew Skala

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     • feld

     @feld Okay, so all I have to do is convince several billion Net users to use Kagi instead of Google.