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I can’t replicate this. Maybe it’s because I’m logged into Google when I search?
Me neither, the examples called out in the article have likely all been culled by now. I do have to wonder why entering ad keywords for names of popular software doesn't immediately flag for review though.
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to properly search youtube, you have to use google with "site:youtube.com"....
But how long until youtube comments and reddit posts are filled with plausible content made by SEO spammers using ChatGPT?
Google's search product has become a shadow of its former self. Every year it seems harder to find what I'm looking for. The top half of the first search result page is now (potentially malicious) ads, and what follows is likely SEO spam. I need to add "reddit" or "stackoverflow" to half my searches these days so I'm not served nearly useless results. It's a sad decline from 10+ years ago when I'd type a half-formed…
What made Google take off was not only was it fast, but you also got what you were looking for in the first page of results — if not the top of the first page.
No more carefully crafting queries to try to filter out the chaff. What you wanted, fast, and easy enough that someone not versed in how to carefully structure queries could be immediately successful.
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If some search engine or other tool can get us back to that point, that’s not only what will eat Google’s lunch, but devour it - and quickly.
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> I need to add "reddit" or "stackoverflow" to half my searches these days It feels truly absurd how many queries I need to append "reddit" to get something useful. The web has changed but Google isn't keeping up.
I keep hearing about adding reddit to one's search queries, but what sort of things are y'all searching for where reddit's opinion is relevant? Reddit is kind of like that effect that people say about popular journalism; for the things that you're an expert on, they always get it wrong, but for things you know nothing about, they have a way of sounding right. Reddit is very much like that for me; if I know nothing ab…
These searches often lead to niche communities that have built up expertise over time in their wiki or FAQ, though.
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> I need to add "reddit" or "stackoverflow" to half my searches these days It feels truly absurd how many queries I need to append "reddit" to get something useful. The web has changed but Google isn't keeping up.
This makes me laugh - I've found myself appending "reddit" to my search queries more and more frequently when looking for product or service reviews. The regular google results are filled with affiliate-link-driven ads disguised as product reviews. If you want to really know what people think about products, you have to go digging these days.
It boggles my mind that neither macOS nor Windows has an official, comprehensive package manager. Sometimes the only way to get software is to download binaries from a Google search like it's 2003. On macOS, 90% of what you'd ever need is on Homebrew—this is more or less a solved problem—but it's still unofficial and Apple promotes their pointless App Store instead. In Windows land, the unofficial package managers ar…
What’s the difference between the App Store and a package manager? Mostly it comes down to trust: I can give you Mac .pkg files all sorts of ways but what you really want is a way to know that I am who I claim to be. Package management has a boot-strapping problem for mainstream platforms: the same people telling the public that you should install Firefox using their ad bundle installer would instantly pivot to sayin…
"At cost" for digital stores run well* appears to be between 12% and 18% depending how readily end users can unsubscribe or how easily they can end up interacting with a human for a support, since it costs more to be user friendly. Stores charging less, e.g. 8%, have processing billed separately, generally adds back up to 12% or more.
Relative to that, keep in mind Apple's 30% in the first year drops to 15% in the second, and 85% of apps are hosted/delivered free.
* "Well" as defined by end user, not by developer.
If their advert area develops a reputation for being bad & untrustworthy then their business model breaks on a pretty fundamental level.
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>I've found myself appending "reddit" to my search queries So what you're saying is I should create dedicated subreddits about my products that only allow my multitude of bot accounts to post to it, but look like real conversations?
This is why a lot of younger people just search stuff on tiktok.
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> I need to add "reddit" or "stackoverflow" to half my searches these days It feels truly absurd how many queries I need to append "reddit" to get something useful. The web has changed but Google isn't keeping up.
This makes me laugh - I've found myself appending "reddit" to my search queries more and more frequently when looking for product or service reviews. The regular google results are filled with affiliate-link-driven ads disguised as product reviews. If you want to really know what people think about products, you have to go digging these days.
The malvertisement thing has become real bad. The other day I had a problem so I used chrome, where I unfortunately hadn't installed an add blocker yet. I searched for my bank (I know, I should have put the URL in directly, but I was being lazy since it was a new chrome install and I didn't have the url in my history yet). I hit the first link, logged in (my password manager would have saved me here, but again it was…
How did you log into the bank with valid credentials if it's on the wrong domain? My password manager won't fill it in on the wrong domain and I literally don't know my banking password.