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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 24/11/2025

Super strange to see that a site-query lists articles like the "headless stopgap" but a exact search for ["headless stopgap"] or even [site:aifoc.us "headless stopgap"] doesn't. I would love to learn the solution (if it's not a bug on the search side)

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 25/05/2025

I remember proposing The Cloisters – crazy times.

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 22/05/2025

The issue isn't that Google is using an excavator but that Google is using an excavator to build their store building (AI mode) on our property (content) and claim everything as their own.

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 20/05/2025

If Google only would have a quick cache ;-)

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 16/05/2025

As for the 204 status code: I believe it's primary use isn't caching but acknowledging that the request was successful and also indicate that there is no body to send for a complete response. 304 status code also has no body but there is a body which already has been sent and is known to the client.

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 16/05/2025

I stumbled a bit about the part on TLS where it somewhat implies that TLS implies authenticating that the server is who he says he is. I did some reading and my conclusion: It's not wrong but it's not completely correct either.

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 16/05/2025

I really enjoyed listing to the newest episode of "search of the record". So I would like you to continue this conversation @divingfor.fun & @methode.bsky.social Two comments:

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Gisele Navarro @ichbingisele.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Google AI Overviews will give you an answer even if what you’re searching for is the meaning of a made up idiom. They are killing thousands of websites for this crap.

A quote from the Futurism article that states “on top of spewing false information, Google’s AI Overviews is undermining the business model of countless of websites that host trustworthy info.”

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 24/04/2025

Pet peeve of mine: mobile is dominating almost always. Yet most SEO slides show desktop serps

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 22/04/2025

I just tried and it “works” the same in German. I also checked ChatGPT search and it can’t be fooled as easily

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 21/03/2025

Are those slides going to be shared?

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Barry Schwartz @rustybrick.com · 20/03/2025

Google Search Console API gains 24-hour hourly data for past 8 days coming soon searchengineland.com/google-searc...

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 13/03/2025

this is what it looks like. Right now Google stores roughly 10 days of data on a hourly basis. I guess in theory a week over week look of yesterdays data would be something Google could "easily" implement.

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 13/03/2025

The Google CoreUpdate might be a good moment to share a new Chrome extension I wrote. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gsc-u... Allows you to see more hourly data than just the last 24h. cc @markwilliamscook.com @lilyray.nyc @aleyda.bsky.social @glenngabe.bsky.social …

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gsc unleashed - Chrome Web Store

an extension to unleashed hidden data from the GSC

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 10/03/2025

Adapt or die, as always. I don't believe there is a one size fits all solution to this. I've seen Slashdot, Facebook, … traffic come and go and maybe it's now the end of getting traffic from other sources. Maybe it's the era of direct traffic and owned networks.

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 10/03/2025

Maybe my wording is off but I am not arguing that free content is eliminating the subscription market. I am saying that AI that is scraping free, ad-driven content is eliminating that content. On the subscription side of things people will not be willing to pay for every site only a few that remain

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 10/03/2025

this is what I wrote last Friday in a slack channel:

My predictions: Publishers will try to keep LLMs away from their precious content but most will ultimately perish. This is because ecommerce websites (or other websites with alternative monetizations other than subscriptions and ads) will provide content “for free” and open to LLMs. Very few subscription model publishers (I’m guessing very big ones like the NY Times) will survive. In the end the web will be less diverse and much more expensive.

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 06/03/2025

Impression of our Berlin office

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 03/03/2025

how to exit vim 😏

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 26/02/2025

I was thinking about flying to the US this year. I guess I won't 😞

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 25/02/2025

I have to say I am really impressed by Claude 3.7 Sonnet. "Create a website in the style of the 'Still Alive' from at the end of Portal during the credits." didn't even take a minute to create a nice page which even could play music. Sure this isn't advanced programming but still very impressive.

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Mark Williams-Cook @markwilliamscook.com · 24/02/2025

Don't mention Trump or Musk as disinformation spreaders -was apparently a Grok system prompt that was exposed in its "thought process" output. A few people on Reddit claim to be able to reproduce this:

Grok output saying not to mention Musk or Trump as disinformation spreaders

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Dean Cruddace @devs.uk · 19/02/2025

Does anybody have anxieties about asteroids hitting the earth? If so this site is not for you, don't look. This one took about 2 hours to build using NASA's NEO API and some measurements to help the mericans. rockdodger.com

rockdodger.com

RockDodger – Like a game, but real life

Track real asteroids zooming past Earth! See their sizes in bananas, speeds in sneezes, and distances in pizza deliveries. Who said astronomy can't be fun?

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 13/02/2025

Looks like an advent calendar to me. Probably a german thing to think of?

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 10/02/2025

Really sad. And even without legal action the shopping saas could cancel, the payment provider could kick him but they wont. And that’s even sadder

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Annik Rubens alias Larissa Vassilian @annikrubens.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Liebe Münchner, nicht vergessen: wir sehen uns am Samstag um 14 Uhr auf der Theresienwiese! Weitersagen! muenchen-ist-bunt.de/2025/01/demo...

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Demokratie braucht DICH! Kundgebung am 08.02.2025 14.00 THERESIENWIESE – München ist bunt

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 06/02/2025

I believe it's a great idea. Some improvements though: There is a awkward 3 second black screen at the beginning (not really an issue but could be improved). The one which I would really love to see: have the title reflect the question. "SEO Office hours Shorts [date] #hashtag" isn't really helpful.

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 06/02/2025

😁 I“d love to know if this works out in the end

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 05/02/2025

Good point. But still: I'm guessing Google is mainly trying to battle the ever rising tide of very similar but ultimately not very useful content. If we are lucky Google might be able to group similar contents for different audiences similar to href-lang but seeing how challenging that is I doubt it

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 05/02/2025

Content which is truly unique or at least includes truly unique additional information. Or explained the other way around: Not content which has the same meaning but is only worded differently.

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 03/02/2025

Did Google lift a site reputation penality (in Germany) over the weekend?

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 31/01/2025

Binary quantization reminds me a lot of Simhash which I read a lot about like 14 years ago or so. I believe it's still worth a read docs.google.com/presentation...

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Detecting Near-Duplicates for Web Crawling www07

Detecting Near-Duplicates for Web Crawling Gurmeet Singh Manku (Google) Arvind Jain (Google) Anish Das Sarma (Stanford University) 1

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Darren Shaw @whitespark.ca · 29/01/2025

Did you know I built a free local ranking checker tool? I think it's the best one of these out there, but I guess I'm biased freelocalrankingchecker.com

freelocalrankingchecker.com

Free Google Local Rankings Checker & UULE Generator

Check Google search results from any location with this free UULE generator tool.

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 29/01/2025

by scraping I mean the extraction of the main text from the html

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 29/01/2025

Scraping is also done by the model?

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 29/01/2025

- searching for something like [adidas rabattcode] + publisher name doesn't surface the publisher either (I guess that's the nature a/the penality?)

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 29/01/2025

Some observations I didn't read about anywhere: - there is at least one publisher still present in the coupon space (because of not using a subdomain but a subdirectory?) searchengineland.com/google-sendi...

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Google sending manual actions for site reputation abuse in Germany

This comes a week after Google expanded enforcement of this policy in Italy, Spain and France.

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 23/01/2025

right-arm Elon running election interference – anyone surprised by this?

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Picard ethics tip: Target their weapons.

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 17/01/2025

I am a Search Engine Operator ✅

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