Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

Post by speedgoose » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 12:39 PM UTC

ad404b8a372f2b9 wrote: post #295

superasn wrote: post #249

There are some sites that are so useless and they have never ever helped me once, yet somehow they are always in the top 10 results 1. w3schools 2. pinterest 3. microsoft answers and all microsoft websites actually (it always looks like the person asking the question is asking exactly what i want, but unlike stackexchange, there are seldom any useful answers) 4. all the code clones for SO 5. all alternative to / revi…

W3schools is wonderful, it's got great primers on a whole lot of languages and libraries with concise, clear explanations and examples.

Post by pweezy » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 12:41 PM UTC

henrikschroder wrote: post #210

kshacker wrote: post #49

I know google search is probably not the same as google flights, but I spent a few hours recently (over a few days) using google flights and it was a delight to use compared to the Expedia children. We had a bereavement in the family and had to book multiple independent tickets because we could not travel together. This was just after the Ukraine war started so prices had gone through the roof. Exact number of days w…

I miss Hipmunk, and curse the day Concur bought them.

Post by ajmurmann » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 12:59 PM UTC

beachy wrote: post #54

The one thing I wish that Google offered would be the ability to blacklist sites for a period (coud be fixed - say 6 months). So damn annoying when the top search results all lead to shitty SEO-optimised sites that use a whole page to blather on and on, leading to a tiny information nugget at the end. No value, just excellent SEO scamming. As these scam artists get better and better at this, Google gets less and less…

Post by bkobren » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 1:17 PM UTC

jokoon wrote: post #276

Is that because users are starting to use other engines like DDG, meaning google have trouble learning its AI models? I have to say that most of the time, when I search for something related to python, it's difficult to land on the official doc, it's always something like tutorial point or something else, it's annoying. Same thing when I want to land on a wikipedia article. Maybe it would be a cool thing if I could l…

Post by forgotmypw17 » Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 1:36 PM UTC

rg111 wrote: post #214

I am sure it’s plenty more than these three. Yesterday, I searched "best after-sale service of AC". What I was shown was SEO'd pure junk. Absolute junk as the first result. Next few were the same, but more focused on affiliate programs rather than providing genuine info. Down the line was Quora, where _sales rep of AC companies_ wrote answers that _theirs_ had the best service. I wad very disappointed. You.com showed…