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Comment by GordonS | Hacker News Reader

Heh, I guess you mean "trawling" - trolling the entire web is something very different :)

Then again, if you look at today's search results, where everything above the fold belongs to Google, maybe we have been trolled indeed.

Depending on the intended metaphor, trolling could work too :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolling_(fishing)

What would trolling the entire web look like?

It would look like a modern search engine with innovative technology offerings like Advanced Mobile Pages.

Wow, you’re right. Trolling the entire web would involve an organization that carries considerable authority whose decisions can impact every member of the web.

AMP is the perfect way to troll websites into making shitty versions of their content, for no real reason other than just because you feel like it. And then when you’re satisfied with your trolling you just abandon the standard.

"Trolling" is fine, see e.g. https://grammarist.com/usage/trawl-troll/#:~:text=Troll%20fo....

Not in this context - "trolling" as described there would apply to targeted indexing of a specific site; while "trawling" would refer to a wide net that attempts to catch all the sites.

Well, no, it's not fine.

See e.g. the source you linked, which explains the difference.

Did you read to the end? Methinks not!

>Did you read to the end? Methinks not!

Methink harder.

>Troll for means to patrol or wander about an area in search of something. Trawl for means to search through or gather from a variety of sources.

We were talking about gathering information from a variety of sources to build a search engine index.

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