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Google even has/had a rule against cloaking (the practice of serving search engines a different version of the page from the one visitors get).
by Nextgrid 26d ago
Google even has/had a rule against cloaking (the practice of serving search engines a different version of the page from the one visitors get).
- stldtt 26d agoThis started with expertsexchange: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3182198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3182198 but unlike that stack overflow predecessor that attempted to build itself as a paywalled business, newspapers successfully strongarmed Google, at least in the EU, by arguing against Google monopolistic powers so it's unlikely that Google would dare put them in the shitlist.