Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set
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#2The actual site (millionshort.com) seems hugged to death. I was excited to try it.
If it takes off, I wonder if the phenomenon will give a boost to affiliate sites. If you can't be there in the top results, align with those who can.
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#3This is a cute idea, but there are some genuinely useful sites this winds up skipping over. Wikipedia is a great resource for quickly understanding a topic enough to drill down in to more precise research.
Where I see this being useful is searching for current events. For example a search for a local double-shooting I've been following returned some information I hadn't seen before. It would probably be good for them to focus on more news-oriented searching as that's where there's a serious echo chamber among the top websites.
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#4Please use the original title.
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#5Archived copy, which can viewed with JS disabled:
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#6I’ve always wanted to see a search engine thar takes the top SEO tips and penalizes sites that use them.
For example searching for how to grow a garden. I never want to see howtogrowagarden.com. I’d prefer to find more genuine l, non seo juiced advice.
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#7I would have liked to read about how their technology works. I imagine they're not building their own index using their own crawlers.
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#8I’ve always wanted to see a search engine thar takes the top SEO tips and penalizes sites that use them. For example searching for how to grow a garden. I never want to see howtogrowagarden.com. I’d prefer to find more genuine l, non seo juiced advice.
Many SEO tips, like using H1 tags, make the site more usable IMO. I imagine removing the top million leaves you with some pretty ugly sites.
I’d like to remove just the top 10K or 100K.
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#9I’ve always wanted to see a search engine thar takes the top SEO tips and penalizes sites that use them. For example searching for how to grow a garden. I never want to see howtogrowagarden.com. I’d prefer to find more genuine l, non seo juiced advice.
Problem is that SEO is tied to appearing relevant, so to penalize SEO is to penalize relevancy. Splitting SEO from relevancy is often a matter of making better search
Searching for least-relevant can be pretty random: it's easy to point at the center of a circle, but the edge of the circle is not a point
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#10I use million short to search for howtos written by real craftsmen in their field.
One example is an end-grain cutting board that I made recently. For most things Ike that, the top 1000 are dominated by made-for-Pinterest blogs or major sites that aggregate low quality content that's good enough to get hits but not good for much more than that.