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Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

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Post by UnFleshedOne »

christkv wrote: post #109
BLanen wrote: post #82

Earlier 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…

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.

Or a good support for search results block lists, then users can deal with SEO spam same way they deal with ads. Pinterest will be sooo gone...

Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

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Post by yumraj »

ziml77 wrote: post #145
yumraj wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And as I had mentioned in another thread, DDG so far ignores them, at least in my 1 case, but Google has those GitHub issues mirror sites as the first results. So they are clearly gaming Google SEO.

My experience has been finding more garbage on DDG, not less. I ended up getting too tired of those results being above the good ones that I switched back to Google.

Try this, the exact query I was referring to. I leave it to the reader to decide which is better.. The top 2 Google results are scrapped clones (or whatever they should be called) of the 1st result from DDG (Github issues #162 for docker-calibre-web)

The closest Google comes in top 4 links is a link to the entire Github issues for docker-calibre-web

DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=FakeUserAgentError+calibre-...

Google: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=FakeUserAgentError%20c...

DDG Results:

1) https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre-web/issues/162

2) https://www.nas-forum.com/forum/topic/67746-tuto-calibre-web...

3) https://pypi.org/project/fake-useragent/

4) https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre-web/issues/

Google Results:

1) https://githubmemory.com/repo/linuxserver/docker-calibre-web...

2) https://issueexplorer.com/issue/linuxserver/docker-calibre-w...

3) https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre-web/issues

4) https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/issues/1527

Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

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Post by stevesimmons »

testudovictoria wrote: post #181
stevesimmons wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they seem to be losing the content junk spam SEO fight Google clearly isn't even trying. So many of these sites are polluting search results for months. It isn't a case of sites that pop up for a few hours until Google notices and blacklists them. Google Search has gone so far downhill. I'm not sure what they're optimising for. Long-term irrelevance, it seems.

> Google Search has gone so far downhill. I'm not sure what they're optimising for. Long-term irrelevance, it seems. I assume they're optimizing for the most common denominator: standard, non-power users. Early search didn't return great results for human-like questions such as What are the wavelengths of the colors on the visible spectrum ? The result might be within the first two pages, but that query had too many…

If Google actually used its search history, it would see I was a sw eng power user, and return the types of results that users like me want to see.

Then again, I have been using Google Maps for 16 years and it still cannot show me distances in km rather than miles. A boolean setting ffs that I've had to manually switch probably a thousand times.

If billions of dollars of AI R&D can't even figure that out...

Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

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Post by leifdenby »

Does anyone know of a good list of these copy sites? I just came across this Firefox extension which makes it possible to filter sites from search results: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hohser/. Would be great with a community blocklist like those for pi.hole

Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

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Post by whatsakandr »

Recently I've found duckduckgo to provide better coding results than Google, which really surprised me. I was only using duckduckgo at home for privacy, and Google at work because "best tool for the job", but I think that might not be the case anymore.

Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

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Post by blahyawnblah »

bbarn wrote: post #102
shmde wrote: post #98

Just 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?

I do the same, but with "mdn" instead of "w3schools"

Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

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Post by tomtheelder »

ziml77 wrote: post #145
yumraj wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And as I had mentioned in another thread, DDG so far ignores them, at least in my 1 case, but Google has those GitHub issues mirror sites as the first results. So they are clearly gaming Google SEO.

My experience has been finding more garbage on DDG, not less. I ended up getting too tired of those results being above the good ones that I switched back to Google.

Wow total opposite experience for me. I find Google much better for casual searches, but DDG oceans better for anything technical.

Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

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Post by randomluck040 »

slownews45 wrote: post #197

Google search is going downhill in my experience. My question: What is the alternative?

I‘m using DDG most of the time but when I have to use Google hoping the results will be better, I try to specify words that need to be in there. However, the more niche your problems are, the less you will find.

Re: Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?

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Post by mhzsh »

dadboddilf2 wrote: post #154

baeldung is the worst offender for java echosystem

I actually saw a job posting by them on SO awhile back for “part-time article writing”. My guess is if they legitimately hire people to do it, those people just end stealing content to meet their writing demands.
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