Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!
unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 12 hours agothe page will immediately get blocked because it tried to load a result from Reddit or coursehero or something
Does that mean any search (AI insight notwithstanding) will get blocked if it includes a Reddit, Coursera or something on the blocklist result at all?
Because if yes, that’s much more than just asinine. It’s basically blocking entire search topics due to the sheer fact that Reddit will appear on the furst page of Google a lot.
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 12 hours ago
That is exactly what is happening. They type in the search query on their Chromebook, the results page flashes for a second and then the “this page is blocked” screen comes up saying they were blocked from Reddit, et al. Without them clicking on any search results.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Somewhat OT but why do you block coursera?
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 9 hours ago
We have a different person that manages our block list so I don’t know the reason for all the blocks. That said, we block www.coursehero.com not www.coursera.org
jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Oh I thought it was a typo. I have no idea what coursehero is.
I will say coursera is awesome for their calculus classes. (Or they were like 10+ years ago anyway.) Which caught me up after a long hiatus from college when I returned to finish.