I agree with this article, but I can't entirely agree that Reddit is a good alternative for a search engine. As much as I appreciate the content on Reddit, though, it's a database and a forum, not a search engine. I often find myself searching Reddit by either 'site:Reddit.com' on Google or, as of recently, using you.com, which I am positively surprised with; I'd say you.com search of Reddit is probably the best right now.
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#992Honestly, I append Reddit, Stackoverflow, or Stackexchange to probably 75% of my searches.
From my point of view, there's wayyyy too many blog sites out there full of crap content, meanwhile forum posts on these sites often yield results that are something I can actually do/use.
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#993"Google still gives decent results for many other categories, especially when it comes to factual information."
That is highly questionable and subjective.
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#994The other day I was searching for a specific kind of jewelry and realized I don't know of a search engine that can do what I needed, which is to just find good results for my search. Searches for jewelry-related keywords triggered Google to go 90+% ads, and their results (and other search engines' results) were so junked up with spam and the same couple sites over and over that they were useless. We're back to the We…
Google's ideal would be that every single search result would be both relevant and an ad. And it's going there, somewhat at least. Because the people who have the most time to write articles are employees writing/researching 8h a day. Someone doing it on their free time has no chance of competing. The problem is that obviously the people paid to write are biased. In some cases maybe it's a problem, in others maybe not.
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#995February 16, 2022 Join live stream (4PM-6PM Pacific 2/16/2022) https://ee380.stanford.edu Speakers: Dmitri Kyle Brereton, Danny Sullivan EE380 will meet online today, 16 February 2022 at 4PM Pacific Speakers: Dimitri Kyle Brereton, Danny Sullivan Title: Google Search Is Dying Yesterday, February 15th, Dimitri Brereton blog link was posted to Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com). The comment, Google Search is Dying, gar…
Is a recording of this stream available anywhere?
Will it be uploaded here later - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rMWw6rRoeSp...
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#996I've used site:reddit.com many, many times, and I use DDG as search engine. The WWW is turning to shit, now only specific communities are worthwhile.
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#997"Even the exact match query operator (" ") doesn't give exact matches anymore, which is quite bizarre." Why not make this optional. Why not recognise that there are some people who may want to do searches using exact match. Google could still provide exact match but default to "smart"/"assisted"/whatever search. Nope. No can do. Because how would that support online advertising. The web that Google promotes and encou…
Danny Sullivan, the Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Land founder, now works for Google. He claimed on Twitter that exact search with quotes works as expected. Replies from users suggested he was wrong. I can remember the day Google announced they were removing/downgrading support for the quote operators. I remember because there was protest on HN about it. I cannot recall any announcement they were adding this functionality back.
This reminds me of Microsoft hiring Mark Russinovich, the Sysinternals founder. Big Tech companies neutralise informed critics by hiring them. The former critics defending become defenders of the company as it now seemingly represents their own work.
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#999This makes sense as platforms like reddit or this HackerNews are basically search results + social media engagement features sorting qualified opinions
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#1000> SEO optimized Hmmm.....
Upon seeing this in my threads page, I feel the need to elaborate. Since SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, this is an example of RAS Syndrome - Redundant Acronym Syndrome Syndrome.