I really hate these. Especially when I'm trying to figure something out and I'm struggling to find answers, I end up haplessly finding the exact same wrong answer on three different sites.
Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?
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#12I've found that Bing does a better job at detecting spam like this. Not perfect, just better.
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#13The issue is actually pretty old. There was a time when Google introduced blacklisting of search results and revenue of those sites dived. Sadly, later Google rolled back the blacklist.
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#14Search spam sites can be reported to google: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guideline...
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#15Is it bad that I've actually found my answer on some of these sites haha. But yeah, they're pretty low quality in general.
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#16I’ve had to switch to !py on ddg because the official Python docs never make the first page. It’s really frustrating. :/
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#17Well, as i wrote i understand that they try to monetize it. But: why the sudden explosion? I feel there is more of these sites going live regularly. Many times they make up 80% of the first pages on search results, just repeating the SO threads listed before. So it‘s really getting difficult. Something must be done…
Everyone should install an ad blocker so these types of "businesses" become unprofitable. Installing an ad blocker is the ethical choice.
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#18uBlacklist is a great tool to block sites you don't want from showing up on your search results on google (and a couple others including bing and duckduckgo). It supports regular expressions as well, I use /pinterest\..*/ to block all pinterest-related content.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...
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#19I use personal blocklist extension.
It lets you remove entire sites from your search.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
I've also removed a bunch of trash news sites and wwwSchools, and it's really sanitized my search.
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#20Really ticks me off that Google allows itself to be so easily gamed, it's your core business for christ's sake.
Desktop web search is probably less the core business these days than making search work well on phones/mobile devices with specific applications, such as Maps, etc.