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Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set
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Re: Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set
#12One simple tweak I wish I could do in google would be to eliminate search results based on broad criteria. For example, no sites that have a product for sale, no sites that repackage contents from other sites, no sites that include a given word, no sites that serve adds.
Re: Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set
#13I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filt... for filtering Google. Can't live without it. It would be interesting to have a Github repo with some precompiled filters based on certain business domains.
But for me at least, a couple of rules are enough to solve 99% of the problems.
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#14I love the idea but if this gets popular I guarantee the content-farm/SEO assholes will figure out how to be on the first results page -- registering a boatload of domains is the obvious countermeasure, there are probably many others.
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#15I’ve always wanted to see a search engine thar takes the top SEO tips and penalizes sites that use them. For example searching for how to grow a garden. I never want to see howtogrowagarden.com. I’d prefer to find more genuine l, non seo juiced advice.
Problem is that SEO is tied to appearing relevant, so to penalize SEO is to penalize relevancy. Splitting SEO from relevancy is often a matter of making better search Searching for least-relevant can be pretty random: it's easy to point at the center of a circle, but the edge of the circle is not a point
A perfect system would penalize SEO (appearing relevant) and reward actual relevance. Of course, this is easier said than done.
Re: Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set
#16Please use the original title.
"... unless it is misleading or linkbait": https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The article title is both, so we replaced it with representative language from the text.
Re: Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set
#17We're actively working to add lots of features on Million Short in 2018. I'd be happy to add any feature requests to our roadmap planning.
Re: Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set
#18I love the idea but if this gets popular I guarantee the content-farm/SEO assholes will figure out how to be on the first results page -- registering a boatload of domains is the obvious countermeasure, there are probably many others.
Having worked for Demand Media, seo people will always find a way. It’s always going to be a cat and mouse game, sadly.
Re: Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set
#19I’ve always wanted to see a search engine thar takes the top SEO tips and penalizes sites that use them. For example searching for how to grow a garden. I never want to see howtogrowagarden.com. I’d prefer to find more genuine l, non seo juiced advice.
Many SEO tips, like using H1 tags, make the site more usable IMO. I imagine removing the top million leaves you with some pretty ugly sites. I’d like to remove just the top 10K or 100K.
It looks like they already have an option for that.
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#20I use million short to search for howtos written by real craftsmen in their field. One example is an end-grain cutting board that I made recently. For most things Ike that, the top 1000 are dominated by made-for-Pinterest blogs or major sites that aggregate low quality content that's good enough to get hits but not good for much more than that.
What would we do without the garbage content that is eHow and wikiHow?