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This is a very polite way of saying "this engine isn't very good"
Overall impressed with the project but I thought the word play there was funny
You should monetise this with amazon affiliate links that are relevant to each search. And then use that money to keep this project going. Google is fantastic, but it has become something different from what it was, the company and the product. It is so refreshing to see a modern tool that encourages exploration of the actual world wide web.
I might add a donate button or something if people want to help support the project, hardware isn't cheap and all. But I have a job and decent income. I think if this search engine became the way I earned money, it would influence the project in a bad way, and corrupt its purpose, which is to help people explore the less-commercial internet.
Does it filter out ad-heavy copy-paste/autogenerated fake sites? Tired of seeing those on the first few pages of Google. Bing gets more and more usable, but far from perfect.
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This sort of optimization is why simple recipes are typically found at the end of a rambling pointless blog post now. Still, the best way to break SEO is to have actual competition in the search space. As long as SEO remains focused on Google there is an opportunity for these companies to thrive by evading SEO braindamage.
That sort of recipe blog hasn't happened just for SEO. It's also a bit of a "two audiences" problem: if you are coming to that food blogger from a search you certainly would prefer the recipe first and then maybe any commentary on it below if the recipe looks good. If you are a regular reader of that food blogger you are probably invested in the stories up top and that parasocial connection and the recipes themselves…
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Pretty neat!!! You may already be aware of this, but the page doesn't seem to be formatted correctly on mobile. The content shows in a single thin column in the middle.
Hmm, which OS? I only have a single Android phone so I've only fixed the CSS for that.
- Search results often very old, from the early 2000s (I guess because back then more websites were text oriented). Are you taking into account the age of the page when showing results? It would be great to see more up-to-date results at the top
- I noticed a few results which directed me to websites with security risks, Firefox didn't even let me open them. Is it possible to filter these out from the results?
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That sort of recipe blog hasn't happened just for SEO. It's also a bit of a "two audiences" problem: if you are coming to that food blogger from a search you certainly would prefer the recipe first and then maybe any commentary on it below if the recipe looks good. If you are a regular reader of that food blogger you are probably invested in the stories up top and that parasocial connection and the recipes themselves…
I've basically never been taken to a recipe without a rambling preamble from Google. While food blogs may serve two audiences, a long introduction seems to be a requirement to appear in the top Google search results.