• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Google outright ignores their operators now. There are a bajillion examples of them doing so on Reddit if you doubt that. You can search the subject and see for yourself. They’ll occasionally honor them if there’s no money to be lost, but they’ll blatantly ignore them to show you sponsored content and sites with AdSense on them.

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      10 months ago

      You have to change the search parameters to ‘verbatim’ now. It’s a pain in the ass