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Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

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Re: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

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There are some sites that are so useless and they have never ever helped me once, yet somehow they are always in the top 10 results 1. w3schools 2. pinterest 3. microsoft answers and all microsoft websites actually (it always looks like the person asking the question is asking exactly what i want, but unlike stackexchange, there are seldom any useful answers) 4. all the code clones for SO 5. all alternative to / revi…

w3schools is good.

Re: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

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This used to be a feature of Google Search. It then moved from the Google Account to Chrome. I'm not sure if it still exists in the Chrome browser. It can be done with addons but of course that doesn't feed back to Google. It does surprise me that Google wouldn't want to capture this signal. Maybe it is too susceptible to abuse?

> Maybe it is too susceptible to abuse? The incentive to block one's competitors from 10,000 different accounts is likely why they no longer offer this function?

At the end of the day, being able to detect bots (and the abuse from them) is key to maintaining, well, anything.

Re: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

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post #251

There are some sites that are so useless and they have never ever helped me once, yet somehow they are always in the top 10 results 1. w3schools 2. pinterest 3. microsoft answers and all microsoft websites actually (it always looks like the person asking the question is asking exactly what i want, but unlike stackexchange, there are seldom any useful answers) 4. all the code clones for SO 5. all alternative to / revi…

w3schools is good.

MDN is usually a much better resource.

Re: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

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There are some sites that are so useless and they have never ever helped me once, yet somehow they are always in the top 10 results 1. w3schools 2. pinterest 3. microsoft answers and all microsoft websites actually (it always looks like the person asking the question is asking exactly what i want, but unlike stackexchange, there are seldom any useful answers) 4. all the code clones for SO 5. all alternative to / revi…

g2 is actually used quite a lot by businesses looking for alternative service providers.

Re: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

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ITA Matrix is still available and is my preferred flight search tool. Still find the old interface much better than the new: https://oldmatrix.itasoftware.com/

it's pretty horrible, I just search my vacation destination and it doesn't have LCC Wizzair I'm flying with in Europe = useless search tool

That's on the LCC, not the aggregator. They don't want to pay commission, and that's fine. If you want to fly on them you have to actually go on their website.

Re: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

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w3schools is good.

MDN is usually a much better resource.

MDN is much more complicated. I almost always get my answer faster and easier to understand with w3schools. Plus quick little things like browser support and try it (which mdn also has now)

Re: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

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Google is not great for code search, but I dislike this "rich snippet" thing.

These engines are stealing the sites traffic. The whole point was to be a search engine, not an encyclopedia. If you want to be the latter, produce your own content.

It's my opinion. I don't use those engines because of that. They jeopardize their sources. It's unsustainable.

Re: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

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There are some sites that are so useless and they have never ever helped me once, yet somehow they are always in the top 10 results 1. w3schools 2. pinterest 3. microsoft answers and all microsoft websites actually (it always looks like the person asking the question is asking exactly what i want, but unlike stackexchange, there are seldom any useful answers) 4. all the code clones for SO 5. all alternative to / revi…

Quora is the first site that I ended up blacklisting by DNS, even before rpz and pi-hole were a thing. I felt dirty every time I inadvertently ended up on that site.
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