This is also basically true for Amazon’s search results.
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#332It'd be nice if there was a search modifier that specified "only text and jpgs and some html markup". In C++ there's a notion of POD (Plain Old Data) for simple structs. Maybe the web should have POT (Plain Old Text).
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#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My biggest feature request: A check box that says, "[ ] I'm not buying anything" The primary purpose of ads isn't to get you to buy something. It's to plant a brand in your brain so that next time you do want to buy something, you'll think of the brand. Ads are very good psychological manipulation.
If we are to believe advertisers are so great at their jobs, why can't they produce any meaningful metrics that don't commit egregious sins of statistical analysis? Here's a thing that I am absolutely convinced happens. Ad network tracks purchases. Ad network track ad impressions. Ad network correlates the two and finds that 90% of people who saw the ad also bought the product. But they conveniently "forgot" to check…
This
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#334I'm just gonna throw this out there as I'm noticing it more and more at this point since switching languages. What the actual F has happened to google search results for programming issues? I used to be able to google a question and get, more or less, a right answer from a forum or stack overflow. Recently, many coding tutorial websites have clearly figured out how to hack googles pageranks and now instead of one 'ri…
Same boat here, the only reason I switch DDG to Google was to find more relevance on programming / CS issues. But I feel like it's getting worse.
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Python has been the worst for me; it's almost impossible to find the official documentation for modules/functions. Defining search aliases or custom search engines in the browser with URLs like ''' https://www.google.com/search?q=site:docs.python.org+%s ''' is probably the reasonable thing to do.
https://devdocs.io is nice when you're searching for official documentation.
Thanks for dropping that link. This thing looks fantastic
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#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Instead you can go to TikTok where you will find mostly amusing and at times informative content. TikTok has by far the best recommender system I have ever tried. After an hour of use the system had correctly narrowed down my interests of exoplanets, space exploration, technology, and startups. However that also means TikTok is the most hypertuned echochamber. I hope people don't get their political views from TikTo…
Your intuition is correct. According to [1] it can take 2 hours of browsing and interacting with transphobic content to get straight into neo-nazi content. Many people don't ever see such videos, and don't think it's on the platform - it does become a very hypertuned hyperfocused echo chamber. [0] https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/tiktoks-algorithm-leads-...
Are there any papers on this matter that are not made by explicitly political think tanks?
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#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
So we disagree. Showing me 4 ads before seeing something that is also a thinly veiled ad is not acceptable. Running other software to make search usable is also not acceptable. Combined with your misinformation spread in other threads of this topic, your actions appear to be shilling.
by what definition is it not acceptable exactly? Don’t use Google, or any search engine for that matter, I’d you don’t like ads. Try out Kagi or Neeva.
What “Definition” do you expect?
My completely subjective one, duh.
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#338What’s up with wikipedia results being deprioritized?
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#339“The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.”
-Gabe Newell
When the pain of watching ads becomes greater then the pain of setting up a way to block ads.
Blocking ads will become the norm.
They're doing this to themselves.
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#340Last night I watched a YouTube video that had a song in the background that I hadn't heard but really liked. I pulled up Shazam but it didn't recognize the song, so I took to Google. I entered the lyric and added the search terms "lyrics" and "r&b" at the end. Google returned 4 YouTube videos to songs that didn't contain the lyric, a link to a Boyz II Men song on Genius that didn't contain the lyric (good job Google,…
I have the opposite experience most of the time. I’ve been trying to use DuckDuckGo as my default search engine but I end up clicking my Google bookmark a lot of the time because the DDG results are so low quality. I have no doubt there are edge cases where Bing/DDG outperform Google, but most of the time I have better luck with Google.
I’m now using Kagi (beta paid search engine), but I have used DDG for some years and rarely had to fall back to google. Most of the time it was only to make sure there really is no result, as DDG ignores what you searched for even more aggressively than Google.