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Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#31

Thanks Google. Now can we fix the recipes pages please. No one wants the back story for the "the best brownies", I want to know the ingredients, cooking temps (Celsius and Fahrenheit) and time.

And with the possibility of having the measures in metric.

Otherwise, it is almost useless for most of the world.

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#32
I'm not sure this whole drive towards 'original content' makes sense. It encourages people to make long rambling pages that don't get to the point

In fact it seems like Google worked better when wikipedia was almost always the first result on various topics

What I mean by rambling is if you type something like "types of oranges" and suddenly land on a page where some dude is clearly just filling up paragraphs for google like "so you want to learn about oranges? an orange is a great type of fruit. here's a bunch of text about oranges being described in historic literature"

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#33

>Better ranking of original, quality content Hah. Just another day, someone sent me this link[1] which took images and text from my page[2] for the Google query "linux check disk space". Here is the thing my page doesn't even appear on Google. The ripped page points to the source[2] and has a link back to the original images. These scammers know how to game Google with their AI-driven sites, and they adopt it faster…

DMCA notices are unpopular with the crowd here, but when your content is plagiarized and other people are profiting off of your work, I'd recommend the following workflow:

* Use Copyscape and perform automated plagiarized content detection.

* Automate the sending of DMCA notices to Google and the website host (using captcha solving services, if necessary).

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#34

>Better ranking of original, quality content Hah. Just another day, someone sent me this link[1] which took images and text from my page[2] for the Google query "linux check disk space". Here is the thing my page doesn't even appear on Google. The ripped page points to the source[2] and has a link back to the original images. These scammers know how to game Google with their AI-driven sites, and they adopt it faster…

My Google experience would be improved immeasurably if there was a way for me to block domains after I decide I never want to see them in my search results again.

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#35
> Last year, we kicked off a series of updates to show more helpful, in-depth reviews based on first-hand expertise in search results.

I find myself searching + "review reddit" to find real honest reviews. My anecdotal experience is that everything else is written by content creators who are given the product for free to use for a few days/weeks/months w/o going in depth.

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#36

>Better ranking of original, quality content Hah. Just another day, someone sent me this link[1] which took images and text from my page[2] for the Google query "linux check disk space". Here is the thing my page doesn't even appear on Google. The ripped page points to the source[2] and has a link back to the original images. These scammers know how to game Google with their AI-driven sites, and they adopt it faster…

cnr.it is a domain which belongs to the Italian Research Council, and that subdomain seems to be a blog by the Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems.

These are not scammers, it's probably an amateur researcher which published that information in a blog which is usually read by no-one. Probably it wasn't even meant to be public. But because of the prestige of the domain, it becomes first in relevant searches.

If you track down the author and send him a quick mail, I'm 100% sure they'll help.

I've worked at CNR.

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#37
post #34

>Better ranking of original, quality content Hah. Just another day, someone sent me this link[1] which took images and text from my page[2] for the Google query "linux check disk space". Here is the thing my page doesn't even appear on Google. The ripped page points to the source[2] and has a link back to the original images. These scammers know how to game Google with their AI-driven sites, and they adopt it faster…

My Google experience would be improved immeasurably if there was a way for me to block domains after I decide I never want to see them in my search results again.

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#38
post #34

>Better ranking of original, quality content Hah. Just another day, someone sent me this link[1] which took images and text from my page[2] for the Google query "linux check disk space". Here is the thing my page doesn't even appear on Google. The ripped page points to the source[2] and has a link back to the original images. These scammers know how to game Google with their AI-driven sites, and they adopt it faster…

My Google experience would be improved immeasurably if there was a way for me to block domains after I decide I never want to see them in my search results again.

Google used to have this feature. Why did they remove it?

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#40
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My Google experience would be improved immeasurably if there was a way for me to block domains after I decide I never want to see them in my search results again.

Google used to have this feature. Why did they remove it?

Because it was gamed.
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