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Plenty of paid content on the mattress subs and I'm sure many others
Mattress subs?
was going to ask the same question...
Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
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Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
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I actually started going directly to the Reddit app and finding the relevant subreddit and searching within it - hope Reddit realizes the gold mine it’s sitting on but I doubt it.
Good idea, but Google does the indexing job way better than the very Reddit Search
The issue is the entire internet is out there to game Google so pretty much nothing in google is useful anymore.
Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
#64Are reddit posts not archived or cached anywhere?
There is a torrent with a large compressed dataset with reddit's text, I remember it was ~2TB. I can't find the url right now because it was discussed in a reddit thread.
Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
#65This is the biggest benefit reddit provided to the user base. Google search has been lackluster and appending the word reddit allowed me to see plenty of good anecdotal and informative focused discussions without fluffing up the content for SEO.
so basically (cheap) human content moderation helps against SEO
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I use duck duck go, and haven’t had to resort to that. Anyway, I can’t think of any searches where appending stuff like that wouldn’t be universally beneficial (or detrimental), so I don’t see the personalization angle.
They just use Bing user the hood and the results are awful. I use some browsers that default to Bing/DuckDuckGo and every time I can’t find something I switch to Google and find the answer right away. Bing seems to surface a lot more unrelated or spam my websites at the top of the results.
Sounds like a layer 8 issue, I have been using ddg as my main search engine and I always find what I need on the first page.
Every time I stumble in to google I am appalled at how bad the UX is.
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I hate how easy it is to get confused about what content on the page is even related to the original question. I have to get into my “Quora mindset” where I’m constantly double-checking that I’m not reading the response to a different random question injected into the original page.
I gave up on Quora! I don't even bother looking at all anymore. If Google gave me the ability to block certain sites from my search results, this would be at the top of my list.
> If Google gave me the ability to block certain sites from my search results
uBlacklist?
Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
#68Just use Yandex.com already. It's like Google search from 15 years ago.
no thanks
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Neither Google cache nor archive.org/etc. covers all pages. I've been running into that problem a fair few times
How do you get the cache?
this extension [1] can retrieve cache from various sources, including google.
Re: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
#70This is the biggest benefit reddit provided to the user base. Google search has been lackluster and appending the word reddit allowed me to see plenty of good anecdotal and informative focused discussions without fluffing up the content for SEO.
Unless you happen to already know of a specialized forum for a topic, it increasingly feels like Reddit and Wikipedia are the only parts of the internet that are still valuable; everything else is content farms or SEO spam.
Even then I'm finding that Wikipedia's quality has dropped dramatically in recent years. As they become more zealous about only including "encyclopedic information", I'm increasingly finding pages that have had all of their useful information sucked out of them.