It got so bad that I'm actually taking my own notes on topics again and trying to build up a personal knowledge database. Maybe it's not such a bad thing...
Make sure to go full circle by publishing your notes on a blog and start ranking!
More content by people, for people in Search
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Re: More content by people, for people in Search
#52I'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 goo…
I think there's a different driving factor that. I've heard of a metric that is how long you spend on a given URL. Not sure how they gather that data, probably only gathered from Chrome users.
Anyway, from what I've heard, that's the reason recipe sites have started posting 4 pages of drivel about the dish before getting to the actual recipe.
Or so I've heard, I don't really have any good sources for this, could just be hearsay
Re: More content by people, for people in Search
#53> More helpful product reviews written by experts
You mean content farms? Oh yea, more of that please.
Re: More content by people, for people in Search
#54It got so bad that I'm actually taking my own notes on topics again and trying to build up a personal knowledge database. Maybe it's not such a bad thing...
I have to append site:reddit.com before most queries now.
Health and medical queries are the worst. The top results literally have the same generic content.
Re: More content by people, for people in Search
#55>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.
Searching for Python API docs and getting w3schools and geeksforgeeks results is frustrating. Is there a solution to this problem? Maybe even a browser extension?
Re: More content by people, for people in Search
#56> 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.
I can assure you that 90% of these product review sites have never even used the product, and the content is almost always written by a $25/article writer from Upwork.
Re: More content by people, for people in Search
#57>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.
Another poster has already suggested `uBlacklist` so I won't waste bandwidth by repeating the link, but I want to underline the utility of this extension, because it's transformed my experience of using Google search for code problems.
Before using this, I was finding the first page of my search results were overwhelmed with StackOverflow-scrapers, which returned SO answers reformatted into some sort of garbage and unreadable 'blog-post'.
Nowadays, after blocking twenty/thirty/fifty(?) of these sites, I get to where I want as fast as I did 10 years ago.
Re: More content by people, for people in Search
#58Earlier 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.
Searching for Python API docs and getting w3schools and geeksforgeeks results is frustrating. Is there a solution to this problem? Maybe even a browser extension?
That one's easy if you use duckduckgo.
!py urlunsplit
redirects you to:
Re: More content by people, for people in Search
#59Could it be that the results have gotten so bad that less people even bother with search, hurting ad revenue?
Re: More content by people, for people in Search
#60How does "more original content" doesn't sound like potential shitty results for a given query? We've already seen tailoring doesn't work universally and people often times want concrete results.