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Google Search Is Dying
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#412Earlier quoted context omitted.
About the "dead internet conspiracy" - I've worked in writing how-to articles for a fairly large "help" website. They paid very little attention to the quality of the articles. I was paid for each piece and thus had about 30 minutes to write an article and later integrate feedback from internal review. Otherwise the payment became too low. The most important factor was cramming SEO terms and links to keep people on t…
My friend briefly had a copywriting job writing weed strain descriptions for dispensaries. He was never provided the product he was describing, just told to make it up.
I assume this is exactly how they come up with the descriptions on most wine bottles
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#413The other day I was trying to find a good website for MTG deckbuilding on google.
It was so astrotufed. I could not find anything other than blogspam.
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#414An important thing to realize, too, is that this is a problem that keeps getting worse. The article talks about product reviews and recipes, but it's been spreading a lot further than that. Recently I was trying to look up a technical error, and found a lot of web pages that seemed to be auto-generated with "How to solve [error_scraped_from_the_web]", complete with a list of generic things unrelated to the error (IE,…
What happened to clubhouse?
I have noticed that a lot of tech and startup clubs on Clubhouse were created by users from India and Iran. Today the clubs are still dominated by users from these countries.
Nothing wrong with that but that also indicates the usual clickfarm spammers from developing countries had unfiltered access to Clubhouse from day 1.
This might sound elitist but it's probably a good idea that C2C apps get their first batch of users and community leaders from high income countries before branching out to the rest of the world.
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#415I did not know that many other people also append "reddit" in front of their search queries. Now that I think about it I have stopped using google search for things I really didn't know about. For all things I didn't know or need to learn about I append "reddit" in front of the search query on google or go to YouTube for video instructions. I use google search exclusively as a short cut to typing for a link, or stuff I know it has already indexed like a place of business. For example I want to go to an imdb parents guide for a specific movie, I just type the name of the movie and parents guide and google shows me the link -- this saves me a bunch of clicks and page loads.
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#416Yesterday I wanted to find something on reddit (brooklyn vs chicago), in last 3 years. Despite setting search result to last 3 years google kept showing reddit posts from 8 years ago. Tried bing and still it sucked, then tried ddg and finally got something relevant, not as good as how google used to be but it pisses me off each time I search something up on Google. Google has become better at local search and deteriorating on global web search.
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#417I'm sure this will get burried, but as someone that uses google search extensively for finding solutions to basic coding syntax questions, SEO has effectively poisoned googles well.
Where when i would post a simple question previously, I would almost always get a SE/SO answer that was 80-90% correct, now I only get a bunch of copy cat 'learn coding' web pages that really aren't ever the question I'm asking.
I use duckduckgo as a browser and the !SO bang is effectively broken due to cookies so I don't know what to do.
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#418To be honest, contrary to the popular hate, Reddit is actually one of the more useful social network I've used.
It contains a lot of memes/junk but it also contains a wealth of people's knowledge.
Reddit should steal 1-3 top search engineers from Google and build out a much better search. And might as well steal a few ads engineers from Google too.
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#419Google 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…
I've found my jobs' internal (social) message boards/mailing lists/Slack channels/etc to be great resources as the only contributors are those who work/worked at the company. Your (ex)coworkers presumably met/meet a certain competency bar and are less likely to spam. At larger companies there are message boards/mailing lists/Slack channels/etc for nearly every topic.
For local information, I've found forums for local sport teams to be great resources during the off season. Posters are often happy to engage in any sort of chat during the off season. Even if you haven't gotten to know the frequent posters during the sport's season you can use the (usually highly visible w/o any additional clicks) account age/# of posts/"karma" as a proxy of posters' trustworthiness. note: If you don't normally contribute on-topic (i.e., about the team and sport) posts, I would only search the forums for your questions and not post off-topic questions as that'll get you quickly banned.
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#420There's not nearly enough discussion in this thread about Google's Verbatim mode (Tools -> All Results -> Verbatim).
In my experience turning this on substantially increases the quality of Google's search results. It stops ignoring half the words in your query and seemingly parses "quoted" phases as you'd expect. The biggest problem is that there is no ability to turn this on all the time for your account and turning it on is intentionally a hassle.
Google still has a lot of other problems even with Verbatim enabled, but this makes Google like 30% less terrible even if just using it for site:reddit.com-like searches.