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dangit. I do this all the time. but if it catches on then it will become useless since it will be over-SEOed.
by devmunchies 6y ago
dangit. I do this all the time. but if it catches on then it will become useless since it will be over-SEOed.
- matsemann 6y agoI feel it already has, with useless suggestions from "alternativeto"-stuff coming up. Even PH spams this.
- esperent 6y agoI really wish there was a way to block certain domains from results - alternativeto, slant, Pinterest, quora and more are just noise and often take up the whole first page of results.
- Macuyiko 6y agoCheck out uBlackList: https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist Another HN'er referred to it recently and it has been a godsend.
- gerdesj 6y agoFantastic addon. Google your own phone number and then repeatedly "Block this site". Search "pinterest" and block away. Rince/repeat. Great stuff.
- leephillips 6y agoThank you, this is great. I never want to see results from quora, pinterest, facebook, wikipedia, w3schools, .... and these usually occupy much of the first couple of pages of results.
- peteretep 6y agoI feel like this ship has sailed. I tried looking for "JobAdder Pricing" a few days ago, and the first 5 pages of results are literally auto-generated bullshit. Feels for the first time in a while like Google are vulnerable to someone coming along with a less shitty search engine (although DDG was no better in this instance).
- esperent 6y agoI use ddg as my primary search engine, and have been doing so for a few months. Unfortunately, at least every 3rd search, especially tech related, I have to switch to Google.
- netsectoday 6y agoYou can add domain blacklists directly to your search queries in google: google vs. -site:alternativeto.net -site:slant.com -site:pinterest.com -site:quora.com
- esperent 6y agoThere's no actual search results being returned, just auto suggest results. Is it possible to game these?
- wongarsu 6y ago4chan games them all the time, with google then manually removing things from auto suggest (e.g. there are no auto suggest results for "jews are" or "hitler will")
- netsectoday 6y agoGoogle actually uses some version of Latent Semantic Analysis which clusters these results based upon word frequency and position. This creates a word matrix where snippets of text can be clustered into themes and the documents are related by a fuzzy concept (document distance in Nth-dimentional space), not directly with key-words like "X relates to Y". It's harder to "game" that system, but if you know how it works and you're targeting a concept; it'll just force you to create high-quality content so Google wins anyway. If you really want to play with this type of thing (unlike the blog-post writer that just piggy-backs off of Google smarts) check out the Natural Language Toolkit: https://www.nltk.org/ https://www.nltk.org/
- dhosek 6y agoI used to be able to do reverse phone lookup by typing a phone number into google. That's long been useless.