It's crazy the community has had to come together to create rag-tag tools like this to patch up what is supposed to be a trillion dollar search engine that should be the pinnacle of human civilization. But then I remember it's the same sort of crazy whereby the richest country in the world has homeless people, child hunger, and decaying infrastructure :/
Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
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Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#92I know there’s some serious chicken/egg issue here, and solves a different problem than Google or DDG. but I think what I need is a way to “Like” or “Favorite” a page I’m on (maybe just a bookmark?) and that triggers my personal search indexer which will then index that page. Then maybe optionally “follow” other people’s favorites as part of your own results. Imagine someone crawling Twitter or SoF and you just “foll…
try bookmark service like pinboard.in they have a search engine when you can search by keyword ...
Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#93Hadn't thought about using uBlock Origin for this. I'll use the same technique to filter out Pinterest too then.
Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#94It's crazy the community has had to come together to create rag-tag tools like this to patch up what is supposed to be a trillion dollar search engine that should be the pinnacle of human civilization. But then I remember it's the same sort of crazy whereby the richest country in the world has homeless people, child hunger, and decaying infrastructure :/
Could you elaborate a little on the similarities you see between SEO spam and child hunger?
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#95It's crazy the community has had to come together to create rag-tag tools like this to patch up what is supposed to be a trillion dollar search engine that should be the pinnacle of human civilization. But then I remember it's the same sort of crazy whereby the richest country in the world has homeless people, child hunger, and decaying infrastructure :/
Could you elaborate a little on the similarities you see between SEO spam and child hunger?
In capitalism rich/powerful entities don't necessarily have incentives to make the world (or even their own direct neigbourhood) a better place, and most big entities act only based on their incentives, not based on morals and ethics.
They however have strong incentives to invest all available resources into their own survival, prolong their own life and/or earn more money.
Depending on how the managment is in turn incentivised they will typically also prefer short term success over decisions that would make more sense long term — e.g. short term a search engine saves money by not spending a ton of money on quality when they are in a monopolist position, while in the long term it fould bite them.
Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#96It's crazy the community has had to come together to create rag-tag tools like this to patch up what is supposed to be a trillion dollar search engine that should be the pinnacle of human civilization. But then I remember it's the same sort of crazy whereby the richest country in the world has homeless people, child hunger, and decaying infrastructure :/
Could you elaborate a little on the similarities you see between SEO spam and child hunger?
Both are unnecessary and confusing to see when set against the massive success of their creators.
Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pinterest is one of those sites that I would block forever, if I could customise my search experience.
Add this to your browser's search engine list and make it default: {google:baseURL}search?q=%s+-site:pinterest.*
That's a brilliant solution, thanks!
Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
This attitude is too defeatist, and I'm not convinced. The OP's suggestion was that people would choose which other "favorite lists" or "indexes" they follow, this implies these are public. Who's going to follow someone who puts a StackOverflow clone filled with ads on their list? And if they do, and it shows in my results, I should be able to discover that someone I'm "following" has been compromised, and I'll unfol…
This would have been said a million times for social media and yet most large personalities are filled with paid sponsorships and no one really cares.
Are large personalities not “unique”, and followed for the uniqueness of their character?
Where as the “moderator of a filter” is followed on the basis of their output, the filter itself.
I don’t disagree with your statement, but I don’t find it a compelling counterargument to the suggested solution.
Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#99It's crazy the community has had to come together to create rag-tag tools like this to patch up what is supposed to be a trillion dollar search engine that should be the pinnacle of human civilization. But then I remember it's the same sort of crazy whereby the richest country in the world has homeless people, child hunger, and decaying infrastructure :/
It’s not a lack of resources it’s a lack of will. You can’t force parents to use the food programs. Hell around where I live you can’t stop the parents from stealing from their kids to buy drugs. Send a coat home with a kid on Friday, Monday they show up with no coat.
Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#100Two important questions I don't see answered in the readme: 1. What is the criteria for a github copycat? 2. What is the process for having a website removed? I ask #1 because many businesses use their own git-hosting solutions to host their code but also use github as a mirror. It would be very easy for a competitor to get the website of a rival business listed if the criteria is not strict and specific enough. I re…
For #2 I assume a PR to remove the site could be sent and merged For #1 it seems to mostly be a list of SEO gaming sites that I've personally found to be supremely irritating and deserve to be in the list. They basically just mirror stack overflow and GitHub issues and provide obscured links back to the original source to make sure people stay on their site. You can peruse the list in the code yourself. It's just a t…
I don't like low effort clones either. My only concern is the susceptibility of this project to being weaponized by dishonest actors. Some of us have been on the receiving end of false-flag spamming campaigns by competitors and have been penalized unfairly for it. If these filter lists take off, and I hope they do, they must have a well-documented process for accepting patches and another for handling malicious actors.