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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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[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Good. Hopefully they remove links to pinterest, quora and facebook too while they'reat it.

[–] Cras@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I have a chrome plugin to strip any Pinterest results from searches, it's the absolute worst

[–] Knightfox@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Once upon a time Quora had reasonably accessible information. Now I find it nearly unusable and only go there as a last desperate effort which is generally fruitless. Pinterest is annoying, but generally you can still view some content. What's annoying is trying to download, copy, or isolate content there. If all you want to do is view an image, Google can typically still pull the image out and make it viewable from the search. The problem only arises if you try to go in and see the original.

[–] Zithero@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please remove Quora links...

Every time I click a Quora link it takes me to a completely unrelated question to the one I clicked on.

I swear that site is doing this deliberately to make it seem like it has more traffic than it does.

[–] Fuck_you_Im_a_Fox@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can omit search results from certain sites by adding -quora.com to your search if you're feelings motivated

[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way to just add that flag to all of my searches? Quora is shit in general

[–] Fuck_you_Im_a_Fox@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know of a way to save it as a setting but there may be a plugin you could add to your browser

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

This functionality is currently broken on DDG and was broken on Google about one year ago. Search engines as a whole need complete overhauling