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Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?

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Post by Elect2 »

sigmaprimus wrote: post #8
Elect2 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Medium only hide content after you have read several(I don't know the number) of their articles, that's why you didn't see the "upgrade" button. I know how to work around, but that's not the topic I'm asking.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.htm As for the topic your asking about. I say Google should not remove results, especially if your only issue is a paywall. Here is some info regarding paywalls and Google. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/paywall... And just for you I will give you a nice Google Operand Tip Try this in your search: "What you're searching for -site:medium.com" Hope you find tha…

You still don't understand. It's not a StackOverflow-like question to resolve an issue. It's a discussion.

Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?

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Post by mrjivraj »

tt433 wrote: post #6

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.

why do you dislike pinterest results?

Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?

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Post by dimator »

higerordermap wrote: post #5

Disable javascript or open it in private tab.

I was quite shocked to see just how snappy and clean medium is with javascript turned off, via uBlock. Reminded me of the old web. No noticeable functionality loss, other than the auto highlight popup stuff, which is not missed.

Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?

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Post by ngokevin »

mrjivraj wrote: post #13
tt433 wrote: post #6

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.

why do you dislike pinterest results?

They're always already links to somewhere else, and behind login wall.

Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?

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Post by drusepth »

DarthGhandi wrote: post #12
TenJack wrote: post #4

They should remove Pinterest results first.

I'd put quora in there too, why is all this walled content at the top of google constantly? It's not even high quality.

Quick tip for Quora: you can append ?share=1 to get around signup walls.

Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?

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Post by Lurkars »

uniqueid wrote: post #10

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…

At least there is http status code 402 Payment Required. But I think no host want to set an error code as return code for an existing, working page.

Re: Ask HN: Should Google remove medium.com from search results?

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Post by 7373737373 »

tt433 wrote: post #6

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.

Yes, all these bullshit sites, where right click and saving images, videos etc. doesn't work, because they want to monopolize the actual media content, fuck them.
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