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Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?

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Re: Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?

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Post by paxys »

littlecranky67 wrote: post #135

I wonder why Apple is not starting it's own search engine. I mean yes, they get >$1Bn per year making Google the default on iOS+macOS, but they have plenty of cash so they wouldn't need it. They would get immediately ~10% market share when it is launched, just because it would be made the default on their devices. From their they just need to present better search results than Google (which shouldn't be that hard rig…

Running a search engine is a massive money sink, regardless of its popularity. It's the surrounding ad network which makes money. Competing with Google and Facebook in that regard is an impossible battle, and something Apple has already failed at a couple times now. They have since pivoted into creating a privacy friendly image, so emulating Google simply does not make sense for them.

Re: Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?

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Post by samuelfekete »

Blocking bad sites is just one side of the coin. You should also be able to promote sites that you are more interested in.

This is the goal of Entfer (Show HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29799867)

Entfer will in the future also allow you to bulk export and import your personal rankings, so that they can be shared on GitHub, for example.

Re: Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?

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Post by pbowyer »

nixcraft wrote: post #122
jhchabran wrote: post #5

That's an ambitious goal, I'm not sure to see how that would be maintainable on the long run. On a much smaller scale, if anyone is interested, I maintain a black list focused on those code snippet content farms that gets in the way when you're searching for some error message or particular function here https://github.com/jhchabran/code-search-blacklist .

May I know why my domain (cyberciti.biz) was added to that list? I created my site back in 2000, and there was no StackOverflow or anything. So much for creating original content and then getting labelled as a spammer. In fact, some of the top answers on StackOverflow were copied from my work without giving any credit to me. Some people do give credit tho. But, go ahead block a site that actual humans maintain over 2…

I wanted to stop by and say thanks for cyberciti.biz! I've been using it since 2001-2002 when I got my first Verio Freebsd VPS and had to figure out what was going on.

When I see your site pop up in my search results I know the content is going to be more reliable than most of the others. Thanks for the effort you've put into it.

Re: Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?

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Post by nitrogen »

nixcraft wrote: post #207
nitrogen wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe it's the fact that I don't use one of the three major US ISPs. Hopefully CDNs get used to the idea that there can be more than one fiber provider.

Would you mind sharing the Cloudflare ray id displayed at the bottom of the screen when you see a captcha? I can look into it, and maybe be I will able to fix it too. Reply here or email me at webmaster@cyberciti.biz. HTH.

Not sure if you changed your Cloudflare settings, or if Cloudflare changed something, but I'm no longer getting the captcha, so that's good, but sadly I can't help debug the original issue.

Re: Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?

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Post by kevinslashslash »

short12 wrote: post #155

Does HN block Google completely. I can't recall any search bringing them up even with the wealth of onfo

Ironically, when testing an example Google search from this thread, this thread came up. So HN doesn't block Google completely, but maybe has poor SEO so it rarely shows.

4th result is HN for me https://www.google.com/search?q=%22code+that+protects+users+...

Re: Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?

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Post by germandiago »

mthoms wrote: post #250
germandiago wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The irony here about socialism for me is that I find plenty of people that would fall in those ideals (not only in those, but most of the time) that tell you what is good or bad for everyone else but they seldom do what they say. That is why I said "everyone else's job" is an approximation of "socialism" in my view. I cannot see how that would be a vice of capitalism since capitalism is basically non-intervention and…

>That is why I said "everyone else's job" is an approximation of "socialism" in my view. I don't think socialism is the word you're looking for. If you're trying to say that the described behaviour ("it's everyone else's job") is common in, or a byproduct of, a socialist system then it would make more sense (though it could be argued). But that doesn't make it a correct "approximation" of socialism. Socialism is: >a…

I know the definition, lol. What I meant is attitudes I found under that thinking quite often. It was just a silly observation.

I did not mean anywhere every socialist is like that or that all peopple that do that are socialist.

On top of that, that is just a personal opinion. Nothing else.

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