The Dignified Rant: Thank You Yahoo! This is Much Worse

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I have finally salvaged my pre-Blogger TDR archives and added them into Blogger. They are almost totally in the form of one giant post for each month. And the formatting strayed from the originals. Sorry. But historians everywhere can rejoice that this treasure trove of my thoughts is restored to the world. And for your own safety, don't click on any old Geocities links or any of their similar variations in my posts. Those sites have been taken over by bad and/or dangerous sites. Hover over links first!

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Thank You Yahoo! This is Much Worse

I hate it when a web site becomes less valuable. Like Yahoo news.

This was my basic source for news. Go to the world section and you used to be able to then go to specific regions for news. So I'd go to the Middle East. Or Asia. Or wherever, to scan the stories of the day from those regions.

Yahoo news no longer has that refinement. Now it is just a blob of world news as the Yahoo site defines it. Which currently highlights a pregnant teenager who contracted the Zika virus.

I mention this because earlier I saw an article on the fighting in Iraq, but it is gone now. Browsing for it is not possible now. Sure, I can search for it because I know it exists, but how many stories do I miss now?

Just what was the point of getting rid of the ability to focus on geographic regions?

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I've stopped looking at my statistics because they make no sense since 2023, or so. In April 2024, for example, I'm credited with over 160,000 hits. And since Blogger started keeping statistics, I am credited with about 2-1/2 million hits. I simply don't trust Blogger stats.

My old statistics package, Site Meter, seemed to miss a lot and even disappeared visits after they've appeared.

I added a new StatCounter late in 2016. So far it shows far fewer hits than Blogger and is more in line with the old Site Meter. But it too seems to be missing what appear to be Facebook links that Blogger picks up. And oddly, the total in the counter has dropped a lot after I went over 100K. That's odd. So I'm not sure what my audience size is. It is puzzling to me.

Of course, it is quite possible that the basic problem is my failure to use Facebook and Twitter for keeping and expanding an audience. I noticed that my audience size fell by over 75% by the old statistics as Facebook and Twitter took off. I may be a blogosaur! So be it. On the bright side, traffic picked up significantly during 2021 and 2022. I don't know why. It dropped last year but has picked up some of the losses so far this year. Again, don't know why.

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Thank You Yahoo! This is Much Worse

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