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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.
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that's pretty much our thesis at Breeze: - for web search, we have a better date filter than most, e.g., https://breezethat.com/?q=tiger+woods+after%3A2022-04-12 - for anything else, we have topics, e.g., click recipe tab from any general search on home page, e.g., https://breezethat.com/?q=mango+avocado - we just launched a job finder, 14M listings with 20M by end of quarter, launched early due to the fast fiasco, h…
The different search topics are similar to what I was thinking but it's just a variation on Google's various tabs, like shopping. What I'm thinking of is a dedicated search site focused on a single topic. Take Breeze's guitar tab search and make a Guitargle.com. Then it could be promoted, marketed, refined and advertised on all sorts of apps - probably even on Google itself if they weren't paying attention. All the g…
so in that context, Breeze becomes a portfolio of vertical searches, not unlike say Meredith or Hearst as publishers, etc.?
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Shameless plug for the Let's Block It project: we have a filter template to selectively remove domains from search results: https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results For the Stackoverflow / Github clones, we partner with https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter and their lists are available as presets at the bottom of the filter configuration.
That's awesome and exactly what we need. Never any shame in plugging an open source and free project. Would love to see this as a standalone browser plugin some day. Maybe even making it easier to create and share custom lists
The main complexity will actually be in the frontend: how to make it easy to edit several instances, and check in what list you'll add a new filter?
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Nowadays you should google using what in 2005 would be considered "the wrong way to search". Back then it was all about keywords, quotes and so on. For example if you wanted to know if dogs could eat apples you'd search: > dog apple dangerous Today you should search: > can dogs eat apples And you get way better results with the second form. I've noticed that people who are stuck thinking that the right way to google…
I’d argue that it’s not a “better way”, but rather a regression: I assume Google genuinely wants to understand my query, and I don’t see any reason why it shouldn’t still be obvious to Google what kind of results it should return. Otherwise, it there truly is a “right way of asking Google questions”, why doesn’t Google release and promote a guide about it so people can be more successful in their search?
Same applies to programming. Sometimes I want the one liner from w3schools, sometimes I’m willing to consume the reference documentation.
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.
Yeah I think coders should give up on search engines to meet their needs and instead rely on coder-specific search engines like - https://searchcode.com/ - http://symbolhound.com/ - https://publicwww.com/ etc
searchcode seems to not let you say things like "in the main api", or in libraries, it's all usages, it's also actually the code itself. so "boto3 list_buckets" a common query I do (that google actually does well).
publicwww seems to be searching google?
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…
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…
The one thing I wish that Google offered would be the ability to blacklist sites for a period (coud be fixed - say 6 months). So damn annoying when the top search results all lead to shitty SEO-optimised sites that use a whole page to blather on and on, leading to a tiny information nugget at the end. No value, just excellent SEO scamming. As these scam artists get better and better at this, Google gets less and less…
I started adding "reddit" to all my searches in google, cause 99.9% of time all google links point to seo rubbish. It is absolutely impossible to find anything anymore, I gave up on google for all intents and purposes and use it exclusively as reddit indexer.