Up until a month ago, when I searched Youtube using the "latest" filter, I could reliably get the latest videos uploaded that were relevant to the search terms. Now, it shows a couple of recently uploaded videos followed by many which are for weeks ago, while I know that many more had been uploaded in the recent days.
Google Search Is Dying
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Re: Google Search Is Dying
#132There have been many interesting threads recently about the decline of Google's search quality here on HN. There's zero doubt search results are getting worse, and that ads and spam are the cause. But Google's financial performance has been going from record to record. So there is a huge disconnect building in the market. Each thread has had some common themes, but what's surprising is how different the problems disc…
I'm always interested what people make or do, do you have some sort of link?
I didn't want to hijack the thread for self-promotion, but it is linked from my HN profile, and thank you for asking!
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#133Some really good thoughts here. I'll summarize the ones that hit me: - "Why are people searching Reddit specifically? The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust." This is it for me exactly. I search for the following kinds of things on Reddit exactly because results on other sites aren't trustworthy: Reviews are secretl…
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Your case might or might not be true on political topics, and I won't engage on that, but I think OP mostly mentions impact on product reviews and other more 'down to earth' topics.
I don't think woke activists would care too much about shoe brands, so I think your response is missing the point at hand, which is that search results (including but not only political ones) are deteriorating fast
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#134Some really good thoughts here. I'll summarize the ones that hit me: - "Why are people searching Reddit specifically? The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust." This is it for me exactly. I search for the following kinds of things on Reddit exactly because results on other sites aren't trustworthy: Reviews are secretl…
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#135I’ve posited repeatedly that when Reddit IPOs, I’ll be reallocating a significant chunk of my portfolio into their stock. Their management has historically lacked focus, but if Reddit ever builds a half-competent search index, and positions itself as a search-first, discovery-second destination, they will be in the FANG tier of stocks. They have the data. They have the dedicated, active user base. They have free mode…
I think Amazon or Microsoft acquiring Reddit would probably just be the end of Reddit. They would feel pressured to censor it into non-existence.
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#136I've noticed that I have started doing that recently - appending reddit to my queries. There just seems to be a load of imitation sites now, like 6 different wrapper sites for GitHub, 8 for StackOverflow, a couple for GitLab, something aggregating a load of forums - so the first couple of pages are the exact same content - just from 15 different sites that copy the originals. At least going with a community site ther…
appending "wiki" is also really useful if you're looking for straight facts
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#137Google used to be really, really good at finding exactly what I told it to find. Nowadays, it's turned into the yellow pages; sponsored content from businesses trying to sell me goods and services. Can people suggest good alternatives or search patterns for certain categories of information or search types? Some of the search patterns I currently I use: * Youtube for product reviews and demos, entertainment, music an…
> Can people suggest good alternatives I've been on the Kagi beta test for a few weeks now and, for the kind of searches I mostly do, it seems to be a massive improvement on Google. Strongly recommended. https://kagi.com/
I've also been using Kagi for ~1 month and god can I testify for how fantastic it's been. You have to TRY to find blogspam and the allowance of blacklisting domains plus some other handy search customization features make it an absolute joy to use.
It may lack "instant answer" widgets or other fancy search engine features but it gets the actual "search" part of the equation so right that I find it astonishing how I ever used DDG/Google in the past.
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#138I thought reddit died when people started posting those image memes.
You might be lucky and there is a subreddit for your favorite topic that has very strict rules about memes or lazy content. I wish more subeditors would encourage lazy content or have a "fork" with such rules.
Something as simple as subsubreddits would solve this. I.e. a "funny" subfolder or something, like proper forums are organized in different sections. But Reddit want a eternal feed to show as much ads as possible. Low quality posts makes them money since you have to scroll by them and thus sees more ads.
Re: Google Search Is Dying
#139Some really good thoughts here. I'll summarize the ones that hit me: - "Why are people searching Reddit specifically? The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust." This is it for me exactly. I search for the following kinds of things on Reddit exactly because results on other sites aren't trustworthy: Reviews are secretl…
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Do you have any specifics?
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#140The other day I was searching for a specific kind of jewelry and realized I don't know of a search engine that can do what I needed, which is to just find good results for my search. Searches for jewelry-related keywords triggered Google to go 90+% ads, and their results (and other search engines' results) were so junked up with spam and the same couple sites over and over that they were useless. We're back to the We…
Am I the only one who just skips the search engines and go straight to the source? If I want factual information, I just go to Wikipedia and use their search. If I want to shop I'll go to respected online stores and again use their inbuilt search feature.
Obviously I've just built up a list of good sites in my head which I trust... Google search is good for discoverability if you're new to the web I guess? Although in the old days that's what web directories where good for: