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DuckDuckGo's "lite" search: https://duckduckgo.com/lite?q= My DDG-from-shell Bash function: ddg () { w3m https://duckduckgo.com/lite?q="$*" }
I use the html search instead of the lite search. Not sure what the difference is, but it gets past the reload in elinks.
Focus is either on the submission field or gets there on first tab. Search button is focused on next tab, and visible.
I have been noticing (what appear to be) truncated search results in Google for some time now. At first I thought that was because I was accessing Google through Startpage. But that's not the case. Anyways, I find myself using Bing more and more often these days, because the search results dig more deeply into the 'obscure'. I'm not at all upset by this. It seems to me that as Google's results are not completely sati…
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Google does have some webmaster tools where, after you prove you own the site, you can check if there's something you have to fix about it to get listed, can submit new URLs for them to scan, etc..
Even if your site is perfect according to Search Console/Webmaster Tools, that won't get you listed on Google Search.
This has been been happening for years and getting increasingly worse. But it's not just old websites. I think it's certain types of content. Here is one specific example out of dozens I've seen. There is a short satirical rant "published" on Pastebin called The Java Way. Posted in 2015. Unfindable on Google. It was indexed and findable around the time it was posted. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d…
Amazingly, three hours after your post, this hacker news comment is now showing up in the top 5 for the Google query. Wow.
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Bizarre.
Only the relevance search has results for usenet posts, you can't order by date, and other then using date ranges, there's no way to only see usenet posts.
For example searching for "gamer" before 1/1/2000:
relevance https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22gamer%22$20befor...
date https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/%22gamer%22$20befor...
While it's become impossible to browse the wider Web with Google, it's getting a bit easier elsewhere. A few helpful search engines: * https://millionshort.com/ * https://wiby.me/ * https://pinboard.in/search/ A recent movement to build personal Yahoo!-style directories: * https://href.cool/ (my own project) * https://indieseek.xyz/ * https://districts.neocities.org/ * https://the.dailywebthing.com/ The above resourc…
This has been been happening for years and getting increasingly worse. But it's not just old websites. I think it's certain types of content. Here is one specific example out of dozens I've seen. There is a short satirical rant "published" on Pastebin called The Java Way. Posted in 2015. Unfindable on Google. It was indexed and findable around the time it was posted. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d…
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> Anecdotally and perhaps unrelated - has anyone else noticed a decrease in the accuracy and general quality of Google search over the past 2-4 months Yes. Not just over the past 2-4 months, but over the past five years or so. It's become so bad that Google is no longer the most useful search engine for me.
What would you recommend instead?
From my experience I can say that the web is filled with garbage that tries to exploit whichever search engine you may be using, while also trying to exploit your own attention with flashy headlines and sensationalistic content. These two go hand in hand. It wasn't that long ago that any Google search would return a big list of blog entries; personal, non-commercial blogs, that is. That was the case with YouTube, as…
That old web still exists! It tends to get drowned out by all of the commercial sites, and you won't find more than a hint or two of it through Google, but it is still there...
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Here is an example: http://www.gnoosic.com/discussion/metallica__5.html No matter how you search for the content on Google, nothing comes up: https://www.google.com/search?q="Metallica+only+played+2+son... DuckDuckGo has it: https://duckduckgo.com/?q="Metallica+only+played+2+songs+fro... I checked the wayback machine and the content has constantly been on that url for over 10 years. This is the first example of an ol…
From what I can tell, there's no links anywhere on the site to that particular page, you have to know the exact term and search it: http://www.gnoosic.com/discussion/ How is Google supposed to find that out?!