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Re: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

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Post by tivert »

yedava wrote: post #55

As AI generated content takes over the web, algorithmic search will become increasingly useless. In fact, for many things - like what to buy - it already is useless. Your best bet is asking your family/friend/neighborhood groups. If I had trillions like google does, I'd invest in hiring a whole bunch of humans to curate a search index that is actually useful. It's something a new player will never be able to scale up…

> If I had trillions like google does, I'd invest in hiring a whole bunch of humans to curate a search index that is actually useful.

The temptation for a for-profit company to corrupt that index would be too great to resist forever.

What modern capitalism really seems to do is produce cycles of improvement to gain marketshare followed by enshittification to cash in. The average of the cycle leans more towards the enshittified state than the improved state.

Re: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

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Post by jjeaff »

oven9342 wrote: post #150
pkoird wrote: post #28

I would really love for Google to provide advanced search capabilities or filters to superusers who know EXACTLY what they are searching for. I wouldn't even mind paying for it tbh.

I would really love Google to let me ban certain domains like photo banks which feel attacked by Google searches. I’m not paying Google any money though. And $10 a month is over my budget

eHow. I have literally never found a single useful tutorial from that site and they come up in just about every Google search.

Re: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

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Post by noSyncCloud »

jjeaff wrote: post #183
oven9342 wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would really love Google to let me ban certain domains like photo banks which feel attacked by Google searches. I’m not paying Google any money though. And $10 a month is over my budget

eHow. I have literally never found a single useful tutorial from that site and they come up in just about every Google search.

Quora too.

Re: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

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Post by nairboon »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #96

I'm interested in entirely private, self-hosted web crawlers. The sort of instance you could set up on a $12/yr VPS to provide search results for small, specific portions of the web that you wouldn't get rich details from Google, Bing, et al. Personally curated search. I don't know of anyone who does this well, unfortunately. As much as I appreciate what Kagi is trying to do, I don't think I necessarily want a replac…

YaCy might fit your bill: https://yacy.net/ Although, I'm not sure if a $12/y machine has enough space & RAM. But with YaCy you can setup your own crawls and only index the part of the web that you want.

Re: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

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Post by squigz »

olliej wrote: post #38

"To better address these techniques, we’re strengthening our policy to focus on this abusive behavior — producing content at scale to boost search ranking — whether automation, humans or a combination are involved" But this isn't the problem. People are just generating boatloads of "AI" generated pages with a bunch of ads. They don't need to be #1 in the search list, they just need some of their pages to appear in th…

How much does one earn from Google Ads?

Re: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

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Post by ReadCarlBarks »

oven9342 wrote: post #157
lordwarnut wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Might I suggest the plugin uBlacklist. I use it to block a whole bunch of domains from google search that I don't want to see anymore.

You are an angel!

You don't need to use a separate extension to filter out search results. You can use this tool to generate filters for uBlock Origin: https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results

Re: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

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Post by kiicia »

wyre wrote: post #33
pkoird wrote: post #28

I would really love for Google to provide advanced search capabilities or filters to superusers who know EXACTLY what they are searching for. I wouldn't even mind paying for it tbh.

Have you checked out Kagi? It’s exactly what you’re looking for and more. They have a blog post on the front page rn about their integration with Wolfram Alpha.

The more I read about kagi on hn the more it feels like organized shill campaign

Re: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

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Post by kiicia »

pb7 wrote: post #98
nullhole wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's 299 words (so close to a round number!) of worse-than-useless filler before the recipe. You get two amazon sponsored links and one blog plug for some author with that. There's also an interstitial you have to click through. I can see why GP was not impressed.

The very first thing on the page is a "Jump to recipe" link. If you too are a victim of dwindling attention spans like the rest of us, you have the option to skip straight past the beautiful photos and background.

Actual issue is why "jump to merit of page" link is needed at all, not ones ability (or lack of) toactively filter content while reading
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