Search engines (like Google) can't index SDMB ?

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I noticed another thing just now: Searching with Google for posts I recently made, I can’t find them. I’m suspecting that the search engines like Google or DuckDuckGo can’t index SDMB very thoroughly because their web crawlers are getting the same kinds of time-out errors that the rest of us are getting.

Any opinions if that might be correct?

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How recent are the posts you’re looking for?

Jenny
your humble TubaDiva
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For some time now Google has been nearly useless for doing searching on this board. I often don’t find posts I made or entire threads I know exist. This includes ones several months old or more.

It’s a good idea to try it first but …

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Quite recent – some posts I made in various current coronavirus threads within the last one or two days.

In the past, Google has been very quick to index new posts.

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It would make sense that if you’re having trouble with the board, so is Google.

As I have said before, the software on this board is faulty. It’s not getting better.

There are no fixes for the current version of vBulletin. There is nothing I can do to make it better. There is nothing management can do to make it better as it currently stands.

The situation is not improving until we jettison it completely and go on to something else, a newer and better situation than the old version of vBulletin that we are suffering with now.

We are very likely not top of mind to the Chicago Sun-Times right this minute. They are dealing with the greater circumstances that prevail. They are focused on getting the paper out, their offices are closed, people are working from home, etc etc etc etc. Like what is happening in other work situations around the planet.

It just all sucks to be us right now.

Jenny
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator

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Boards like this can get very heavy demand from Chinese web crawlers – in fact, given the declining number of users on this board, I wondered if the problems were caused by web crawlers crawling http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive — http rather than https being where a large part of the problem is.