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I would bet this is one of those more subtle long-term effects that nobody really saw coming... when Google refocused search with an eye towards commercial resu
by tomc1985 9y ago
I would bet this is one of those more subtle long-term effects that nobody really saw coming... when Google refocused search with an eye towards commercial results, I imagine it deprioritized a lot of the older, more innocent informational content lying around
- malchow 9y agoThis has been my experience. With Google I am constantly asking myself: Wait, what about all that glorious, smart, noncommercial web content that I know exists? Like the Stanford Philosophy Encyclopedia[2] or that economics professor's dataset that I remember being referenced in a podcast a year ago? Google seems to have decided that Wikipedia is the only blessed noncommercial source of intelligence. I guess, if I were to put it strongly, I'd say: using Google is not like using the Internet any longer. FWIW, HNers may wish to check out Yewno[1], a knowledge search engine based in Redwood City that I've had the pleasure of being (tangentially) involved in. [1] http://yewno.com http://yewno.com [2] Yes, I know this is indexed. It just frequently gets buried in my searches.
- telchar 9y agoI feel this way with regard to the many, many forum posts containing the exact answers to questions I want to know. So much subject-specific, often hobbyist information seems to exist primarily on forums yet I almost never see forum posts turning up in search results these days. More typically I'll get (e.g.) five results at variations of the hp.com landing page or some other contentless nonsense.