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

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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.

Little late, I signed up with non-existent email to avoid those signup popups.

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

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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.

It's a shame there isn't a -paywall option

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Appending just the question mark works here.

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

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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…

If we designed the internet from scratch, we should build some way to pay into the protocol, e.g send a header with the payment required info, and then my browser could handle the rest.

It would also make it easy for search engines to label such results, filter them when necessary and hopefully we could avoid so many ad pay sites.

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

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Interesting - i’ve read a lot of medium articles over the years on a daily basis, and not once it ever gave me an “upgrade” button.

Maybe the writer can decide if it the article is free to use? I don’t know - but from my experience Medium is one of the more “open” platforms without any restrictions for the reader.

Strange our experiences are so different.

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

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Interesting - i’ve read a lot of medium articles over the years on a daily basis, and not once it ever gave me an “upgrade” button. Maybe the writer can decide if it the article is free to use? I don’t know - but from my experience Medium is one of the more “open” platforms without any restrictions for the reader. Strange our experiences are so different.

This is the exact opposite of what I experience. Maybe we're in different countries(I'm in the U.S.) and they're targeting for upgrades based on location.

Medium used to be a great resource, but now I loathe seeing it and I won't even bother clicking a medium link.

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

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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…

I think part of the problem is with Google eating the ad business. It seems (from my childhood as a comparison point) that if someone needed to profit off of their content it was fully supported by ads and that was fine.

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

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Google needs to do a lot more to improve the top search results. It was a shock just a few days ago when I told my younger sister to Google something and then I had to tell her "no... scroll down about 2/3rds of the page" because everything above the fold was ads and junk sites.

I have to now not only apply the wadsworth constant to youtube videos but also to search results.

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