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Re: More content by people, for people in Search

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Post by permarad »

mdmglr wrote: post #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.

Yeh I find myself adding 'reddit' a lot to my search queries. I'm looking for someone asking the same question, and someone answering it.

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

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Post by paganel »

A little OT, but is there a name for that design style that Google is using here? I'm talking about the bearded dude at the top of the article, with glasses and a phone in his hand.

I've seen it more and more during the last few years, from ads around the city I live in to hipsterish magazines. There's something about it that has started bugging me the wrong way, I find it kind of infantilising but at the same time trying to "sell" me something as an adult (an insurance product, a "life is good" vibe because goofy drawings, that sort of thing). Or maybe I'm seeing too much into it.

Later edit: I'm talking about visuals like this one [1], which, looking at it again, I find quite similar in style to the one Google is using (hence my question, there must be a trend or something).

[1] https://www.reginamaria.ro/sites/default/files/inline-images...

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

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Post by AraceliHarker »

okumurahata wrote: post #49

On YouTube, there is an option called "Don't recommend channel". I wonder why Google doesn't have a similar option. Or even better, a "Recommend me this website as the first option" button. It would useful to avoid spammy sites and to benefit the good ones. To avoid gaming the algorithm, Google can't take this data into account to benefit/punish websites on search results. The button has the only purpose to customise…

The "Don't recommend channel" feature on YouTube is not permanent, but the blocked channel will reappear after a while.

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

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Post by nextaccountic »

null_object wrote: post #57
yrro wrote: 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.

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 u…

Could you share the url list?

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

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Post by spaceman_2020 »

paganel wrote: post #62

A little OT, but is there a name for that design style that Google is using here? I'm talking about the bearded dude at the top of the article, with glasses and a phone in his hand. I've seen it more and more during the last few years, from ads around the city I live in to hipsterish magazines. There's something about it that has started bugging me the wrong way, I find it kind of infantilising but at the same time t…

Corporate Memphis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

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Post by gempir »

paganel wrote: post #62

A little OT, but is there a name for that design style that Google is using here? I'm talking about the bearded dude at the top of the article, with glasses and a phone in his hand. I've seen it more and more during the last few years, from ads around the city I live in to hipsterish magazines. There's something about it that has started bugging me the wrong way, I find it kind of infantilising but at the same time t…

Corporate Art Style, also referred to as Big Tech Art Style, Globohomo Art Style and Corporate Memphis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/corporate-art-sty...

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

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Post by yrro »

stevewatson301 wrote: post #37
yrro wrote: 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.

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

That looks great, thanks. Installing it now!

I've been burned in the past by relying on extensions like these, which only work until Google change their HTML and then the extension author is (understandably) burned out and doesn't update the extension, and eventually I just give up and uninstall it... I'd be a lot happier if this was a core Google Search feature. But I understand that Google don't make money by blocking their (paying) customers (spammers who run ads) from their search results.

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

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Post by [deleted] »

paganel wrote: post #62

A little OT, but is there a name for that design style that Google is using here? I'm talking about the bearded dude at the top of the article, with glasses and a phone in his hand. I've seen it more and more during the last few years, from ads around the city I live in to hipsterish magazines. There's something about it that has started bugging me the wrong way, I find it kind of infantilising but at the same time t…

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Re: More content by people, for people in Search

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Post by hurflmurfl »

nextaccountic wrote: post #65
null_object wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 u…

Could you share the url list?

There's a public ruleset for this: https://github.com/arosh/ublacklist-stackoverflow-translatio...
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