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

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Post by BlackiceNetwork »

ethanwillis wrote: post #28
BlackiceNetwork wrote: post #27

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.

Im in Europe. And I must add, after reading more comments, I always browse private mode, and open new tab for every link that I visit.

So could also be workflow related maybe. Or combi of both?

Maybe share a medium with “upgrade” link that I can visit and compare end-results?

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

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Post by oefnak »

ethanwillis wrote: post #30

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.

Well, if you're on this site you must have heard something about adblockers? That's the first halve of your problem fixed.

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

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Post by ethanwillis »

BlackiceNetwork wrote: post #31
ethanwillis wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Im in Europe. And I must add, after reading more comments, I always browse private mode, and open new tab for every link that I visit. So could also be workflow related maybe. Or combi of both? Maybe share a medium with “upgrade” link that I can visit and compare end-results?

Could definitely be workflow related.

Here's one that shows the upgrade button/overlay for me. https://medium.com/better-programming/getting-started-with-c...

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

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Post by ethanwillis »

oefnak wrote: post #32
ethanwillis wrote: post #30

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.

Well, if you're on this site you must have heard something about adblockers? That's the first halve of your problem fixed.

Well, my moral conundrum is that I am fine with ads and I don't want to block them wholesale. I just only want to block bad actors.

Now in this specific case we were using a computer that had been freshly wiped, so nothing like an adblocker had been setup yet. (I use brave on my main work computer)

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

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Post by tt433 »

mrjivraj wrote: post #13
tt433 wrote: post #6

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.

why do you dislike pinterest results?

I want to know the origin of whatever content I am consuming. Pinterest appears to deliberately obfuscate that information.

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

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Post by andrei_says_ »

mrjivraj wrote: post #13
tt433 wrote: post #6

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.

why do you dislike pinterest results?

Because I cannot access the content. So the very existence of the result is bait and switch.

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

#38

Post by Jaruzel »

7373737373 wrote: post #19

More importantly, they should add the "View Image" button again, ffs https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17017864/google-removes-v...

Sometimes, right clicking on the larger preview image and selecting 'view image' will bring up the original. Not always though.

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

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Post by antoineMoPa »

mrjivraj wrote: post #13
tt433 wrote: post #6

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.

why do you dislike pinterest results?

Because most pictures are reposts which distracts you from the actual image source you are looking for (Sometimes you want the original text that was next to the picture).

Also, since there are a lot of other pictures with titles in pinterest pages, the probability to match all keywords in your search is high even if the relevance of the main picture is low.

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