Should Google remove medium.com from search results?

Personally I loathe seeing Pinterest come up in my Google searches. So I use a "custom" search in chrome that just sticks "-inurl:pinterest" after all my searches. Perhaps that may be an option for you.

I think a more broad question could be, since when does google allow sites to show different content to the Google bot than what they show to regular visitors.

That used to be a common black hat seo technique.

They should remove Pinterest results first.

Google's results is becoming worse with lot of low quality sites appearing in the search results. I think that they must improve the search engine to show quality results.

What i also want is filter in Google Search Engine to remove all those junk results.

Google needs to do a lot more to improve the top search results. It was a shock just a few days ago when I told my younger sister to Google something and then I had to tell her "no... scroll down about 2/3rds of the page" because everything above the fold was ads and junk sites.

I have to now not only apply the wadsworth constant to youtube videos but also to search results.

Interesting - i’ve read a lot of medium articles over the years on a daily basis, and not once it ever gave me an “upgrade” button.

Maybe the writer can decide if it the article is free to use? I don’t know - but from my experience Medium is one of the more “open” platforms without any restrictions for the reader.

Strange our experiences are so different.

More importantly, they should add the "View Image" button again, ffs

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017864/google-removes-v...

  Should Google remove medium.com from search results?

Maybe.

My question is: if we designed the internet and web from scratch, how would we deal with paywalled pages?

It might be valuable, for example, to create a separate protocol for paywalled content (eg: ""cc:"" instead of "http://") and add road-blocks to discourage paywalled sites from using the wrong protocol. That would allow search-engines to filter search results according to the user's preference.

Medium.com will always be free in private windows. In a regular browser they set a cookie to count the number of articles you read.

Note: paying to writers is fine as long as it is not a clickbait

Disable javascript or open it in private tab.

I hope they can put dev.to articles to higher priority.

Must be what you are searching and reading about as I have not seen an upgrade button for a while.

Maybe you have something(like malware) in your browser causing this.

Anyways this is off topic but there are work arounds for the site you mentioned and I believe you can even google how to do it ;)

No.

What good is a search engine if it doesn't try to point you in a direction where there's a result (even if that direction has a wall (door) that requires payment.

Well, in the ideal world they would show any matching results their crawler saw, but Google already censors a lot of legitimate results, because of local laws.