The price comparison sites that don't contain reviews but do manage to come high up in a Google search for 'X reviews'.
Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?
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Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?
#12All the stores that have been spidered (amazon.com etc) Googles own sites (youtube.com, images.google.com, etc) All the cloaked sites (sites that will redirect you after landing, or that show you different content than they showed the search engine) All the spammers (you've already mentioned experts xchg, but there are many many more) Anything that points to or contains the word sedoparking All the crappy blogs I'm s…
All the stores that have been spidered (amazon.com etc)
Googles own sites (youtube.com, images.google.com, etc)
I'm glad this is a hypothetical question because I find both of the above very useful. I often suffix "amazon" or "youtube" on to a search - saves me actually having to go to those sites to perform a search in most cases.
Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?
#13All the stores that have been spidered (amazon.com etc) Googles own sites (youtube.com, images.google.com, etc) All the cloaked sites (sites that will redirect you after landing, or that show you different content than they showed the search engine) All the spammers (you've already mentioned experts xchg, but there are many many more) Anything that points to or contains the word sedoparking All the crappy blogs I'm s…
All the stores that have been spidered (amazon.com etc) Googles own sites (youtube.com, images.google.com, etc) I'm glad this is a hypothetical question because I find both of the above very useful. I often suffix "amazon" or "youtube" on to a search - saves me actually having to go to those sites to perform a search in most cases.
site:amazon.com
that works just fine and it would keep the rest of the search results clean.
Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?
#14All the stores that have been spidered (amazon.com etc) Googles own sites (youtube.com, images.google.com, etc) All the cloaked sites (sites that will redirect you after landing, or that show you different content than they showed the search engine) All the spammers (you've already mentioned experts xchg, but there are many many more) Anything that points to or contains the word sedoparking All the crappy blogs I'm s…
I would argue that indexing a bunch of crap actually _improves_ the quality of Google's search. Just like trying to filter e-mail spam, the larger your spam corpus, the easier it is to differentiate between valid content and junk.
If they did a better job on the differentiation then I would agree with you.
Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?
#15Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to whip up an extension (or just a greasemonkey script) to append "-site:blah.com" entries to all google searches, according to a user defined list. In fact, I'd be surprised if such an extension didn't already exist (I'm not interested enough to go look...)
The "Customize Google" extension does this
Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?
#16Its funny you mention experts-exchange. Whenever I see that as a search result, its usually a relief. I have yet to see an experts-exchange page that did not have the information I was looking for on it, even though they do make it rather difficult to find (You have to scroll all the way to the bottom to see the actual answer). Compared to the huge number of real spam sites that usually come up when search for techno…
I think a lot of people don't realize the answers are at the bottom, so they click on the link, see the request to register/pay to see the posts, and immediately back up, cursing the pseudo-paywall.
Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?
#17Its funny you mention experts-exchange. Whenever I see that as a search result, its usually a relief. I have yet to see an experts-exchange page that did not have the information I was looking for on it, even though they do make it rather difficult to find (You have to scroll all the way to the bottom to see the actual answer). Compared to the huge number of real spam sites that usually come up when search for techno…
The thing with experts exchange is you have to pay to see the answers, right? (unless I have missed something).
Because they are all over google for most error related searches it is frustrating to click without looking and find a useless page (taunting you almost :P). It hides all the free useful pages with the same answers on :(
I wouldnt remove it from Google though - and I agree, it is better than all the spam link sites.
Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?
#18Its funny you mention experts-exchange. Whenever I see that as a search result, its usually a relief. I have yet to see an experts-exchange page that did not have the information I was looking for on it, even though they do make it rather difficult to find (You have to scroll all the way to the bottom to see the actual answer). Compared to the huge number of real spam sites that usually come up when search for techno…
I think a lot of people don't realize the answers are at the bottom, so they click on the link, see the request to register/pay to see the posts, and immediately back up, cursing the pseudo-paywall.
I've seen people say this before - how do you mean "at the bottom". Every page I have seen highlights the "accepted answer" in green and does ask you to pay to access it..... am I missing a workaround?
Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think a lot of people don't realize the answers are at the bottom, so they click on the link, see the request to register/pay to see the posts, and immediately back up, cursing the pseudo-paywall.
I've seen people say this before - how do you mean "at the bottom". Every page I have seen highlights the "accepted answer" in green and does ask you to pay to access it..... am I missing a workaround?
Their ploy changes sometimes, but the answer is always there on the page somewhere.
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Apple/Operating_Systems/OS_X...
If you scroll down a bit it says "answer is available to premium members". But the page would not rank on Google if it didn't have actual content. Scroll all the way to the very bottom of the page. (APPLE-DOWNARROW on Mac) Bingo.
Re: Ask HN: What sites, e.g. experts-exchange.com, would you remove from Google?
#20Its funny you mention experts-exchange. Whenever I see that as a search result, its usually a relief. I have yet to see an experts-exchange page that did not have the information I was looking for on it, even though they do make it rather difficult to find (You have to scroll all the way to the bottom to see the actual answer). Compared to the huge number of real spam sites that usually come up when search for techno…
The thing with experts exchange is you have to pay to see the answers, right? (unless I have missed something). Because they are all over google for most error related searches it is frustrating to click without looking and find a useless page (taunting you almost :P). It hides all the free useful pages with the same answers on :( I wouldnt remove it from Google though - and I agree, it is better than all the spam li…
It implies that you need to pay to see the answers even though they are presented there on the page. The first block of "answers" is deliberately mangled to imply you need to pay to see them, and then there is a block of advertisements, but below that is the same answers presented in plain text.
Very shifty indeed.