Absolutely agreed + I have got redirecting links as top results and non relevancy results
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#132I noticed this as well, and in addition I got two obvious malware sites for two unrelated searches (one programming, one entertainment). So I switched (back) to DDG. That was about a month ago. DDG isn't as good as the Google I remember, but it's better the Google that shows me obvious spam sites, so it's holding on in my book.
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#133Also talking about SEO it is all so gamified.
how can I just write something relevant and not do all the “tricks” and still reach to audience
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#134I've noticed in the past 2-3 months that results from StackOverflow, Wikipedia, and official programming language documentation sites seem to have been abruptly downranked. They used to typically be in the top 3 results for me for appropriate queries, but now they frequently aren't even on the first page.
It was a long time since I had to append "wikipedia" to my search results, but within the last year or so, I find myself doing it more and more.
Here’s a magic trick for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search
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#135Soon someone will train an AI that takes google search results and filters out the sites that repost content with ads. And the sites that are paywalled.
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#136I've noticed in the past 2-3 months that results from StackOverflow, Wikipedia, and official programming language documentation sites seem to have been abruptly downranked. They used to typically be in the top 3 results for me for appropriate queries, but now they frequently aren't even on the first page.
Yes and on the other hand sites like codegrepper and other such scraper/scam sites are frequently showing in my search results - which are just SO results.
I don't know if they're gaming Google's search or google is actually condoning this (like they've been condoning pinterest's shenanigans for almost 10 years now)
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#137Can someone explain to me why the video results are so bad? Half the time I'm looking for YouTube and YouTube never shows up? Was this due to a lawsuit or something? Half the time it's some random website that has a 2minute video before two 30second ad rolls, never what I want.
Not a snark, but why would you search for youtube videos on google, rather than on youtube?
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#138An era has finished, that's all. Google's corpse will be decomposing for quite a while though. Hopefully they will find their Nadella before they get completely IBM'd.
They're leading the field in AI/ML innovation which is the future. Wouldn't count them out when their stock performed best of any FAAMG this past year and revs are growing faster than the rest
IBM made Deep Blue, Watson (the Jeopardy player), two of the 10 most powerful computers in service today, and outperformed the S&P 500 from 2001 to 2014.
What's your point? A gigacorp has tons of inertia?
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#139What’s up with Google? It’s the best search engine that’s available today, in my opinion.
Have you tried another search engine?
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Googler, opinions are my own. For products that are core, large UI changes tend to just annoy a lot of users, unless there's something really amazing about the change. Even then, people are hesitant to like new UIs. Engineers and designers definitely want to try new things, but balancing those against messing with UIs that a billion+ people use is hard. My general take on drive and calendar, if they are trying to imp…
Plus it's more fun to make a new chat / meet or payment app. Apparently.
I'm sure a marketing firm specifically tailored to such startups looking for a quick exit would be rather profitable.