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Use a search engine that doesn't fuck up your results instead of trying to unfuck the results it gives you. Why go through this much effort to still give your money to google?
Any recommendation? I use ddg but it's Bing based and the results are no better.
Isn't this Google's job? Are developers a small but lucrative target and so the suits at Google don't see the benefit of improving that experience by cleaning up the spam? Can we just nudge them to do so under the threat of an influential minority leaving due to their use case being affected?
I sense Google is too big to cater to us like this. Despite a steady decline in quality, Google is still the dominant search engine and the competition isn’t even close to its market share. Not only would they not notice many of “us” leaving, the amount of change they would have to implement in order to satisfy our desires would end up changing the product for the rest of the market. On some level, the product managers must be satisfied with the metrics as they stand since Google is continuing with their current course.
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> cleaning up the spam I'll be happy to be proven wrong, but I think Google is now fully in the 'optimize for engagement' camp. If that's what they're doing, it's by definition not spam (from their point of view) if people are clicking on it more than the non-spam results. Again, only my guess as to what's going on. I don't see another good explanation for them only serving cloned Stackoverflow and top X lists for ba…
From a user point of view, a search engine’s job is to link you away from the search engine, so how does a search engine measure engagement? Is it time on page or maybe number of searches performed? When you don’t have viable competitors both of those are improved by worse search results. Even number of ads clicked would be improved with worse search results because ads don’t have as much competition for your attenti…
That hasn't been true for a long while.
Users are there for an answer to their query, not to be directed anywhere. Frequently this comes in the form of search vertical response that doesn't lead the user anywhere.
From Google's point of view, you want the user where you can show them ads, full stop. Google does not exist to provide you with answers to your queries, it exists to make money for shareholders.
> When you don’t have viable competitors both of those are improved by worse search results.
I don't think "worse search results" is the way to think of it. From G's point of view they're better because they make them more money.
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Is there a word for this tendency to say, "it's someone else's job" as a justification for doing nothing at all to help or improve one's own circumstances? I see more and more of it in the public discourse over the last years and it kind of bothers me. I see it a lot in conversations related to poverty or climate change, but it is as we see here by no means exclusive to those topics. To the original replyer: you coul…
> Is there a word for this tendency to say, "it's someone else's job" At the risk of sounding pretentious, I call it "socialist", since they spend their lives telling others what to do or what is good or not for the rest of us but they rarely do anything about it. Surprisingly, this is the group that is really worried about poverty and climate change and do as much as I do for it, with the difference that I do it by…
uBlock Origin supports blocking search results, so I don't require an additional browser extension. I maintain a blocklist for myself, targetting Google and DuckDuckGo [1]. Feel free to contribute more websites or use this list as a template for your own repository. [1] https://github.com/darekkay/config-files/blob/master/adblock...
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Google is a lost cause by now. The only solution is a competitor. DDG is just as bad since they source results from google so that is not the solution.
DDG don't source any results from Google. They rely on Bing and increasingly their own bot.
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I sense that in the near future the paradigm of search engines will go from the current “index everything and become a universal answer engine” to “index a small subset of the Internet and become an answer engine honed towards a specific topic/domain”.
Use a search engine that doesn't fuck up your results instead of trying to unfuck the results it gives you. Why go through this much effort to still give your money to google?
Any recommendation? I use ddg but it's Bing based and the results are no better.