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Pretty much all of my customers come from the isolated communities I'm active in.
this is enforcing that fact that it’s more worth my time to be active in more communities, rather than push for ads and seo.
Resulting more information rich communities. so is this just pushing for information silos or adding more?
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About the "dead internet conspiracy" - I've worked in writing how-to articles for a fairly large "help" website. They paid very little attention to the quality of the articles. I was paid for each piece and thus had about 30 minutes to write an article and later integrate feedback from internal review. Otherwise the payment became too low. The most important factor was cramming SEO terms and links to keep people on t…
Classic example of this kind of content... Try searching "How to use X to get stains out of Y". You will find a page for almost any X and Y combination. And they will all have wording like "Put some X on the stained Y... wait a bit... rub it in... and then put it through the washing machine. Hope it works!".
Nope, nothing relevant. Found a counterexample.
Another reason why adding site:reddit.com is so popular: Reddit's search is even more broken than Google and is useless for searching its own site.
Seriously - has no one in this thread used Reddit search? It doesn’t even do spell checking or correction: https://www.reddit.com/search?q=Apple%20ophone
Google serves you an entire page about carbon monoxide poisoning, and recent news stories about carbon monoxide poisoning. You have to scroll through a lot of junk to get to Wikipedia's entry on "carbon monoxide". Bing and DuckDuckGo do a serviceable job telling you about the substance CO.
You cannot search "carbon monoxide" to learn about carbon monoxide, and that is the issue.
The only thing Google still does better for me is provide "Stack Overflow" results.
DDG/Bing might not be perfect but it works for 90% of my web searches.
For whatever reason, Quora has been hogging up my search results for the past month or two. It happened suddenly, and now I'll have to use site:URL or similar to get the desired results. And agree on the reddit thing. Their search engine sucks, and you're stuck with using search engines like google to find anything decent. Edit: Should be mentioned that google still yields decent results if you're using quotation mar…
Google used to be really, really good at finding exactly what I told it to find. Nowadays, it's turned into the yellow pages; sponsored content from businesses trying to sell me goods and services. Can people suggest good alternatives or search patterns for certain categories of information or search types? Some of the search patterns I currently I use: * Youtube for product reviews and demos, entertainment, music an…
> Can people suggest good alternatives I've been on the Kagi beta test for a few weeks now and, for the kind of searches I mostly do, it seems to be a massive improvement on Google. Strongly recommended. https://kagi.com/
Just a heads up if someone is searching reddit for product reviews. I believe most of them are inauthentic. I worked in marketing for several companies and we always had some budget for whisper marketing aka shilling. There are third party agency specialized in shilling on reddit and making it all look authentic.