Comment by tptacek
3 days ago
It would arguably be a benefit to Wikipedia to be pulled from Google search results, since Google prominence is the root of a huge fraction of all the misbehavior on the site.
3 days ago
It would arguably be a benefit to Wikipedia to be pulled from Google search results, since Google prominence is the root of a huge fraction of all the misbehavior on the site.
If nobody ever finds the website, there will be no misbehavior. Genius.
Obviously, people would continue to go to "Wikipedia", and the encyclopedia itself wouldn't be hidden from Google, but Wikipedia pages on arbitrary subjects wouldn't be at the top of search rankings simply by dint of being Wikipedia pages.
It's likelier it'd be forgotten in a couple months. I imagine they already have observed a substantial decrease in traffic due to AI chatbots and Google's AI summaries.
Security through obscurity!