Elevating original reporting in Search

Post by alkibiades » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 8:38 PM UTC

gambler wrote: post #133

rdtwo wrote: post #125

Authoritative seeming sources are not always a good thing. Anytime you search for a game guide/faq/hint you get drivel from the big name sites that are super short on content and have bad advice. Almost in all cases the content I’m looking for is in some tiny blog that barely ranks but matches all the search words.

> Authoritative seeming sources are not always a good thing. Yeah, but what if stupid people search for the wrong thing, find the wrong website and get infected with Wrongthink? Have you thought about that? Crushing amateur content creators and betraying all the ideals of the early Web is small price to pay for preventing that intolerable scenario.

Post by SimbaOnSteroids » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 8:57 PM UTC

toasterlovin wrote: post #110

snackematician wrote: post #82

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There should also be more representation from far-left organizations. See this article on how Google traffic to far-left sites dramatically dropped in 2017, due to Google deciding to promote "authoritative" content ahead of "alternative viewpoints": https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/19/goog-s19.html "Authoritative content" seems correlated with center-left in the US context, though the US center-left may be co…

Fair enough, I guess, if you also want to give more representation to far right organizations. The organizations OP mentioned are not far right. They are mainstream right. With the possible exception of RT, which I'm not actually all that familiar with.

Post by specialist » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 9:10 PM UTC

mises wrote: post #78

specialist wrote: post #59

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I had totally forgotten about "verbatim tool". Thanks. Further, I see there's now an option to disable "relevant" (personalized) searches. https://www.google.com/preferences "Private results Private results help find more relevant content for you, including content and connections that only you can see." Followed by checkbox. The linked explainer suggests the "relevant" (personalized) search is informed by your activ…

Does any one know how to erase "personalized search" information from being not logged-in?

Post by shostack » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 10:24 PM UTC

rdtwo wrote: post #125

Authoritative seeming sources are not always a good thing. Anytime you search for a game guide/faq/hint you get drivel from the big name sites that are super short on content and have bad advice. Almost in all cases the content I’m looking for is in some tiny blog that barely ranks but matches all the search words.

Post by wutbrodo » Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 10:46 PM UTC

thanatropism wrote: post #144

gambler wrote: post #133

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> Authoritative seeming sources are not always a good thing. Yeah, but what if stupid people search for the wrong thing, find the wrong website and get infected with Wrongthink? Have you thought about that? Crushing amateur content creators and betraying all the ideals of the early Web is small price to pay for preventing that intolerable scenario.

I have this feeling like 30% of the time on HN and never know how to articulate it. I was online in the 90s and never expected to see so much widespread support for curbing free speech. It's like the Russians won.