I've removed my website from indexing by Google. The proximate cause is Google's new effort to DRM the web (archive) but there is of course so much more.
This is a unique time, when it's actually feasible to become ungoogleable without losing much. Nobody really expects to be able to find anything of value in a Google search now, so if they're looking for me or something I've made and don't find it, they'll use some other approach.
I've looked over the kind of traffic that Google refers to my website, and it will not be a significant loss even if those people fail to find me by some other means. Over 30% of the traffic to this website is rss feeds. Google just doesn't matter on the modern web.
The web will end one day. But let's not let Google kill it.
Once I found you thanks to
myrepos(very later -moreutils- special thanks forvidir) and since then I have been reading rss with pleasure. I hope you'll not close it :)Search engines will evolve to something like a navigation system - maps, link directories, sailing directions.
Nice blog post. I think there a comeback somehow for the blogosphere although not as old days but we hope be better than that. Launching newsletter is cool nowadays even popular YouTubers launched their newsletter (example how money works channel has a free newsletter that sends the videos earlier to subscribers) and smartnonsense newsletter. I love using RSS tech and newsletter.
Will add your blog to my Yakread. Peace.
Good idea!
I know you now have very little involvement in ikiwiki at all, but I’ve had a patch to implement ikiwiki’s search in terms of DuckDuckGo (rather than Google as it is now) sitting around since 2019, and if this is something that you find interesting I’d be grateful if you’d consider taking a look: https://ikiwiki.info/todo/Change_the_ikiwiki.info_search_box_to_not_using_Google/ - Jon