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I just tried search for "quill" in incognito, and I got quill.com as the first hit (both ads as well as organic result) - apparently there's a company called Qu

I just tried search for "quill" in incognito, and I got quill.com as the first hit (both ads as well as organic result) - apparently there's a company called Quill Corporation (quill.com). It seems reasonable to return that as the first hit. quilljs.com is 5th hit on the first page. "quill javascript" has quilljs.com as the first hit. This seems reasonable. What's your suggestion on how to make this better ?

cblconfederate 6y ago
just checked my history, my first result was "froalla", happened more than once (the query must have been "quill js" or "quill editor" cant remember -- it's an example of the infamous 'google® tax' - an obviously keyword-targeted ad)
eitland 6y ago
Here's another one: https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&client=firefox-b-m&ei=Dcx-X7D5CoyorgT7q7vQAQ&q=%22express-http-proxy%22+%22logging%22&oq=%22express-http-proxy%22+%22logging%22&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQR1AAWABgzH1oAHADeACAAQCIAQCSAQCYAQCqAQdnd3Mtd2l6yAEIwAEB&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwjws9CoyKTsAhUMlIsKHfvVDhoQ4dUDCAw&uact=5 https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&client=firefox-b-m... It is a search for "express-http-proxy" "logging" but at leat I got maybe one relevant result and a bunch of wildly unrelated ones, despite doublequotes.
- IndexPointer 6y ago
  Do you have an example of a page that is a good result for that query?
  - eitland 6y ago
    There was one among the top 10 when I did the search. As for most of the rest of the first 10, null would have been a valid, more correct and generally better result! I actually wasted several minutes on one of them right away since I haven't still gotten into the habit of verifying every single Google result to se that it actually is what I asked for and not whatever filler Google decided to use this time. Not that it should be necessary, - they had this sorted back before 2010! Seriously: why can't Google or DDG get this right anymore?

cblconfederate 6y ago

just checked my history, my first result was "froalla", happened more than once (the query must have been "quill js" or "quill editor" cant remember -- it's an example of the infamous 'google® tax' - an obviously keyword-targeted ad)

eitland 6y ago

Here's another one: https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&client=firefox-b-m&ei=Dcx-X7D5CoyorgT7q7vQAQ&q=%22express-http-proxy%22+%22logging%22&oq=%22express-http-proxy%22+%22logging%22&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQRzIECAAQR1AAWABgzH1oAHADeACAAQCIAQCSAQCYAQCqAQdnd3Mtd2l6yAEIwAEB&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwjws9CoyKTsAhUMlIsKHfvVDhoQ4dUDCAw&uact=5 https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&client=firefox-b-m... It is a search for "express-http-proxy" "logging" but at leat I got maybe one relevant result and a bunch of wildly unrelated ones, despite doublequotes.

IndexPointer 6y ago
Do you have an example of a page that is a good result for that query?
- eitland 6y ago
  There was one among the top 10 when I did the search. As for most of the rest of the first 10, null would have been a valid, more correct and generally better result! I actually wasted several minutes on one of them right away since I haven't still gotten into the habit of verifying every single Google result to se that it actually is what I asked for and not whatever filler Google decided to use this time. Not that it should be necessary, - they had this sorted back before 2010! Seriously: why can't Google or DDG get this right anymore?