The worst of all are those websites that only show the content in search engine. When you click the link to their webpages, you can only see random texts have nothing to do with the search result at all. There must be some really narcissistic programmers behind these.
Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?
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Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?
#102Just to chip in with a very minor annoyance, I hate how google puts up w3schools results above MDN for anything related to JS/HTML.
I've seen several developers google "w3schools someDomEvent" because they are conditioned by those search results. Has it accidentally become a halfway useful site?
Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?
#103Somewhat tangential but I believe Google Search is going downhill, they seem to be losing the content junk spam SEO fight. Recently, I've had to append wiki/reddit/hn to queries I search for because everything near the top is shallow copied content marketing.
ddg has the same issue though
Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?
#104Reminds me a little of an oldie but a goodie: expertsexchange.com
Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
They seem to keep giving more and more confidence in their language semantic ai. Quoted words in the search should return only pages with that actually on the page. That used to work. Now it often shows pages that don't contain it all, not in the search results page itself, nor on the page when you go there. So you'd think it just ignored the quoted text and gave me results without it instead, right? Wrong. Removing…
Google Search has been going downhill _fast_ over the past 5 years or so. Since it's probably incompetence rather than malice, what the heck is going on at Google Search? It seems to me the "let's use AI for everything" camp has taken over the entire place even though it's making Search worse than it ever was. And please spare me the excuse that now Google can answer questions. It can't, it just answers with snippets…
Just like pretty much every other thing online Google (search) is constantly in danger of being run over by people acting in bad-faith to game the system.
Of course their actions have not been perfect but it is a mistake to say that their search would be better as a "plain old algorithm" no matter how well-engineered it is.
I'm certain that search results would be worse than they are now if the algorithm was just "grep but for the whole internet". Or that, in that case, the careful complexity necessary in each search to exclude all the SEO garbage would be unbearable.
Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?
#106Just to chip in with a very minor annoyance, I hate how google puts up w3schools results above MDN for anything related to JS/HTML.
I've seen several developers google "w3schools someDomEvent" because they are conditioned by those search results. Has it accidentally become a halfway useful site?
It's fine for simple things. I referenced it a lot when I was first learning JS and HTML because it was usually at the top of Google results. I think MDN is strictly better.
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#107IMHO the biggest offender: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ They are making me insane with the modal login demand. I wonder if Google has downgraded the authoritative standing of StackOverflow?
These definitely aren't what the OP are talking about. They focus on original content but the quality is not great.
The other sites, every page is a mirror of an SO page, with worse CSS. Maybe you haven't encountered them yet!
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#108Really ticks me off that Google allows itself to be so easily gamed, it's your core business for christ's sake.
I used to work for a company that gamed Google like this, but with product search results (that were, themselves, CPC ads). The company got bought for scrap because Google got good at downranking their pages in search results and finally taking shopping seriously. A lot has changed since then, but I doubt that Google has decided these kinds of content farms are suddenly OK. It should also give pause to people asking…
It does give me pause, but do you really think there is no way to have both open algorithm and good results? What is users assessed sites as they used a search engine, and then this was broadcast back to the engine?
I have a feeling there is a way to introduce randomness to this search engine in a way that smooths out the game theoretic arms race of gaming an algorithm. This goes against our natural urge to have a fully deterministic algorithm which always brings the most pertinent sites right at the top. However, because humans are trying to bring order to things for their own benefit, throwing in chaos could prevent people from even trying to game the algorithm
Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?
#109Somewhat tangential but I believe Google Search is going downhill, they seem to be losing the content junk spam SEO fight. Recently, I've had to append wiki/reddit/hn to queries I search for because everything near the top is shallow copied content marketing.
They seem to keep giving more and more confidence in their language semantic ai. Quoted words in the search should return only pages with that actually on the page. That used to work. Now it often shows pages that don't contain it all, not in the search results page itself, nor on the page when you go there. So you'd think it just ignored the quoted text and gave me results without it instead, right? Wrong. Removing…
I just want a search engine that will let me mark sites and links and let me search in that subset when I want so I can add curated sources to my little index.
Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?
#110this shits is just as same as quora and pinterest w3school and apidock