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Getting so sick of the ads and such online. And every website has an adblocker detector now. You can't just look something up any more and end up on a website w

Getting so sick of the ads and such online. And every website has an adblocker detector now. You can't just look something up any more and end up on a website where someone wants to help you. You always end up on a website where someone is trying to make bank off of you.

karatestomp 6y ago
The kind of copy Google encourages is at least as big a problem, I'd say. Do you ever search for something, click a result, and find you have to skip down fifteen paragraphs to get what you wanted? It's a real problem on the Web these days. Pages with incredibly low information density, on purpose. Even the simplest piece of information may be buried way, way down a page with no actual content above it, just inane rambling. This is a real problem for search results on all kinds of topics. You may have seen it yourself, these garbage pages with high search rankings. How bad a problem is it? Often the entire first page of results is nothing but pages that waste your time on purpose. (but seriously, imagine the sheer count of person-hours wasted writing and reading this useless fucking crap, making the Web worse on purpose, and it's been going on long enough that I guess... Google just thinks that's fine? Ugh. I swear it's like they just gave up on good search results around '08 or '09 and settled for whatever as long as the pages serve ads and get clicks)
- pbhjpbhj 6y ago
  >Do you ever search for something, click a result, and find you have to skip down fifteen paragraphs [...] // Nevermind that, how about when you go to a result and the _quoted_ "keyword" isn't even in the page? That was probably the straw that broke me and sent me to DDG, I don't think it's better, but I'm over being sent results for whatever their reason is rather than because they are what I'm trying to find.
friendlybus 6y ago
I agree with this wholeheartedly. I think theres a hole in the market forming for another mega-information sorter and searcher now that google is losing its edge. Quite possibly a new format for organising information on web platforms.

karatestomp 6y ago

The kind of copy Google encourages is at least as big a problem, I'd say. Do you ever search for something, click a result, and find you have to skip down fifteen paragraphs to get what you wanted? It's a real problem on the Web these days. Pages with incredibly low information density, on purpose. Even the simplest piece of information may be buried way, way down a page with no actual content above it, just inane rambling. This is a real problem for search results on all kinds of topics. You may have seen it yourself, these garbage pages with high search rankings. How bad a problem is it? Often the entire first page of results is nothing but pages that waste your time on purpose. (but seriously, imagine the sheer count of person-hours wasted writing and reading this useless fucking crap, making the Web worse on purpose, and it's been going on long enough that I guess... Google just thinks that's fine? Ugh. I swear it's like they just gave up on good search results around '08 or '09 and settled for whatever as long as the pages serve ads and get clicks)

pbhjpbhj 6y ago
>Do you ever search for something, click a result, and find you have to skip down fifteen paragraphs [...] // Nevermind that, how about when you go to a result and the _quoted_ "keyword" isn't even in the page? That was probably the straw that broke me and sent me to DDG, I don't think it's better, but I'm over being sent results for whatever their reason is rather than because they are what I'm trying to find.

friendlybus 6y ago

I agree with this wholeheartedly. I think theres a hole in the market forming for another mega-information sorter and searcher now that google is losing its edge. Quite possibly a new format for organising information on web platforms.