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Someone should start an anti-google. Like petittube.com, but for websites. Don't really know how to get the least viewed pages on the internet, but it would be

by kart23 7y ago

Someone should start an anti-google. Like petittube.com, but for websites. Don't really know how to get the least viewed pages on the internet, but it would be an interesting site for sure.

user5994461 7y ago
I don't think the results would be much interesting. Lots of sites will be default homepage/about/contact, where the author never started the site. Then a ton of useless pages like auto-generated indexes and summaries, that humans don't care about. An endless amount of duplicates because query string ?arg=value can crawl infinitely. And last but not least, copies of major sites and spam pages trying to fill search results. I personally made a few websites and in my opinion it is fairly easy to get indexed by Google. If you open a pizzeria in small city, should be trivial to be top result in google for "pizzeria in town" after a week. Despite all the critics Google is incredibly good at finding readable relevant content.
- alufers 7y ago
  Yeah... Until a country-wide food delivery company starts an advertising campaign and floods the results with their website even though their services aren't available in that town.
  - user5994461 7y ago
    This barely affect search results. The company will waste a ton of money and only get one line at the top. Only to vanish a week later having run out of ad budget. Meanwhile Google will still be listing all the pizzerias in the first page and will still try to geolocate the user to show a map of pizzerias around.
- kart23 7y ago
  Yeah, you make a good point, millions of pages could quite possibly be from the same domain and basically have the same content. Search by domain, rather than pages, and I think it would be kinda interesting. What kind of websites are up that get barely any visitors? I would be interested in visiting the sites that aren't making any money, and why/how someone is paying for it.
pgcj_poster 7y ago
I think this site is basically what you're describing: wiby.me
- kart23 7y ago
  It's got some interesting stuff, but theres a lot of websites that get millions of pageviews.
seafoam 7y ago
https://millionshort.com https://millionshort.com
- cloudier 7y ago
  Thanks for sharing this; I will be trying this out for searches that don't work well on Google. Millionshort allows you to remove the top n most visited sites from your search results. I'm expecting this to be useful for surfacing more blogposts and fewer SEO-optimised websites.
cmogni1 7y ago
I’ve started picking the bottom result of google on page ten for fun...you get some really wacky content that clearly isn’t optimized for SEO or isn’t relevant at all. Example: last night I searched “Robin Williams bipolar” and got a page ten result that was a conspiracy theory on Taylor Swift being a psychopath.
- kart23 7y ago
  Eh, I think I found the one you're talking about, and it still looks like a somewhat legitimate looking news site, and according to other sources still gets thousands of pageviews a day. Also, that's such a specific topic, by page 10 most of the results are just somewhat related news articles. Try searching something more general, and the results on page 10 are things that could easily be on the frontpage, probably just don't have dedicated SEO. I want to see what the other 90% of the internet looks like. But also, I think they should break traffic down by domains, not pages. For example, does each article on HN count as a new page?

by kart23 7y ago

Someone should start an anti-google. Like petittube.com, but for websites. Don't really know how to get the least viewed pages on the internet, but it would be an interesting site for sure.

user5994461 7y ago

I don't think the results would be much interesting. Lots of sites will be default homepage/about/contact, where the author never started the site. Then a ton of useless pages like auto-generated indexes and summaries, that humans don't care about. An endless amount of duplicates because query string ?arg=value can crawl infinitely. And last but not least, copies of major sites and spam pages trying to fill search results. I personally made a few websites and in my opinion it is fairly easy to get indexed by Google. If you open a pizzeria in small city, should be trivial to be top result in google for "pizzeria in town" after a week. Despite all the critics Google is incredibly good at finding readable relevant content.

alufers 7y ago
Yeah... Until a country-wide food delivery company starts an advertising campaign and floods the results with their website even though their services aren't available in that town.
- user5994461 7y ago
  This barely affect search results. The company will waste a ton of money and only get one line at the top. Only to vanish a week later having run out of ad budget. Meanwhile Google will still be listing all the pizzerias in the first page and will still try to geolocate the user to show a map of pizzerias around.
kart23 7y ago
Yeah, you make a good point, millions of pages could quite possibly be from the same domain and basically have the same content. Search by domain, rather than pages, and I think it would be kinda interesting. What kind of websites are up that get barely any visitors? I would be interested in visiting the sites that aren't making any money, and why/how someone is paying for it.

pgcj_poster 7y ago

I think this site is basically what you're describing: wiby.me

kart23 7y ago
It's got some interesting stuff, but theres a lot of websites that get millions of pageviews.

seafoam 7y ago

https://millionshort.com https://millionshort.com

cloudier 7y ago
Thanks for sharing this; I will be trying this out for searches that don't work well on Google. Millionshort allows you to remove the top n most visited sites from your search results. I'm expecting this to be useful for surfacing more blogposts and fewer SEO-optimised websites.

cmogni1 7y ago

I’ve started picking the bottom result of google on page ten for fun...you get some really wacky content that clearly isn’t optimized for SEO or isn’t relevant at all. Example: last night I searched “Robin Williams bipolar” and got a page ten result that was a conspiracy theory on Taylor Swift being a psychopath.

kart23 7y ago
Eh, I think I found the one you're talking about, and it still looks like a somewhat legitimate looking news site, and according to other sources still gets thousands of pageviews a day. Also, that's such a specific topic, by page 10 most of the results are just somewhat related news articles. Try searching something more general, and the results on page 10 are things that could easily be on the frontpage, probably just don't have dedicated SEO. I want to see what the other 90% of the internet looks like. But also, I think they should break traffic down by domains, not pages. For example, does each article on HN count as a new page?