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

Post by russellbeattie » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 5:36 PM UTC

aghilmort wrote: post #322

russellbeattie wrote: post #199

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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…

interesting; we have one site like that to search VC blogs, https://askanything.vc/ so in that context, Breeze becomes a portfolio of vertical searches, not unlike say Meredith or Hearst as publishers, etc.?

Post by python_bread » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 5:41 PM UTC

version_five wrote: post #109

beachy wrote: post #54

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…

There is a programmable search feature [0] that lets you limit search to a defined list of sites. Someone did a ShowHN a few months ago where they had built a programmable search with 200ish common sites that a stereotype HN reader might like (software documentation, wikipedia, reddit, some news and other media, etc), and it was actually pretty good. I've said before, google is now basically what I'd call a "smart" p…

Post by swethmandava » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

londons_explore wrote: post #181

I just wish Google would expand its index. It is reasonably common that I search for a string from a bit of code and find "0 results", even though that code is up on GitHub (and probably mirrored to a bunch of other sites). GitHub search finds it fine. Same for searching for stuff on my own personal blog. Only about half of pages are indexed, even though many have been there years.

Post by goldphotograph1 » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 6:17 PM UTC

jokoon wrote: post #276

Is that because users are starting to use other engines like DDG, meaning google have trouble learning its AI models? I have to say that most of the time, when I search for something related to python, it's difficult to land on the official doc, it's always something like tutorial point or something else, it's annoying. Same thing when I want to land on a wikipedia article. Maybe it would be a cool thing if I could l…

Post by code2life » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 8:04 PM UTC

rg111 wrote: post #214

I am sure it’s plenty more than these three. Yesterday, I searched "best after-sale service of AC". What I was shown was SEO'd pure junk. Absolute junk as the first result. Next few were the same, but more focused on affiliate programs rather than providing genuine info. Down the line was Quora, where _sales rep of AC companies_ wrote answers that _theirs_ had the best service. I wad very disappointed. You.com showed…