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I'm also annoyed by this. Google tries to out-smart the user and often yields garbage or generic popular crap even when looking for something very specific. I
by the_duke 8y ago
I'm also annoyed by this.
Google tries to out-smart the user and often yields garbage or generic popular crap even when looking for something very specific.
I want my quotes back too!
An even bigger issue:
Due to SEO and ranking benefits for popular sites, it's basically impossible to discover quality content by smaller sites/blogs via Google. Unless you go to like page 10+, where you also get a lot of irrelevant stuff.
- est31 8y agoThis hit me very recently when I was doing a crypto project [1] and ASN.1 DER came up. I'm german and "der" means "this" in German so google just treats "der someword" as search for "someword". So when I want to know e.g. how strings are being DER encoded, I google "DER string" and am getting results for G-string underwear and some duden.de website but nothing about ASN.1 DER strings on the first page :/. At least when you google for "DER integer" a post about ASN.1 values is the fourth result. [1]: https://github.com/est31/rcgen https://github.com/est31/rcgen
- frankc 8y agoWith regards to your last point, ive had some good luck with millionshort.com, which lets you remove some portion of top sites from your results.