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Thursday, September 1, 2022
Google is weird
So yesterday my Google pageviews dropped 80%, from over 4000 two days ago to 1000 when I went to bed last night. Today Google tells me that yesterday saw over 3000 views.
I'm curious how views on a news reader show up. I rarely visit the actual page except like now to make a comment. However, I at least glance at most content.
I tracked the fuckery as going on from about 01:50 to 17:00ish PDT, during which time post- and page-views kept resetting downward to zero. Kind of like voting machines tallying Trump votes in 2020.
I originally thought it was Alphabet being proactive and wringing out 'bots and spiders like Musk demanded of Twitter.
Then the numbers bobbed back up. Perhaps they intend to sell or spin-off the Blogger platform and were cleaning up the metrics but did it too quickly, so they back-tracked 65%. If the sale (perhaps even to Musk!) is in the offing, I would expect them to continue to purify the numbers but to do it over the next month or so.
I support cleaner data. It actually makes the engagement via comments that much more impressive.
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I'm curious how views on a news reader show up. I rarely visit the actual page except like now to make a comment. However, I at least glance at most content.
I tracked the fuckery as going on from about 01:50 to 17:00ish PDT, during which time post- and page-views kept resetting downward to zero. Kind of like voting machines tallying Trump votes in 2020.
I wonder if Google uses page view tabulation software from Dominion...
Several blogs I read have reported similar odd numbers.
Not unpossible G*ggle had an "update.
But fascist fuckery could be the answer.......
I saw something similar on my blog.
I originally thought it was Alphabet being proactive and wringing out 'bots and spiders like Musk demanded of Twitter.
Then the numbers bobbed back up. Perhaps they intend to sell or spin-off the Blogger platform and were cleaning up the metrics but did it too quickly, so they back-tracked 65%. If the sale (perhaps even to Musk!) is in the offing, I would expect them to continue to purify the numbers but to do it over the next month or so.
I support cleaner data. It actually makes the engagement via comments that much more impressive.
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