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Ask HN: How do you avoid Google Search SEO spam?
What do you do to avoid encountering spam and still finding relevant and interesting content.
- PaulHoule 5y agoSome fraction of searches are things you do over and over again and finding specific strategies that bypass the search engine are helpful: (1) Some programming languages such as Python and Java have good manuals. Learn to look up answers in the manual instead of looking them up on Google which puts you at the mercy of Stackoverflow and the other spammers. (2) The least used feature of web browsers is the history -- you see people crashing their computers and driving themselves to distraction with 50 tabs open because they don't know or don't believe they can look things up in their history... (Don't manage tabs -- close tabs!) If you avoid spam sites, your history is a clean good place to search. (3) In certain domains there are good search engines. arxiv.org is a good place to search computer science, physics and math literature. Pubmed is a good place to look up answers on medicine and biology.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago> they don't know or don't believe they can look things up in their history My browser histories are never complete. This is for multiple browsers across multiple machines. It has become so commonplace for sites to be missing from my history that I've all but quit looking.
- PaulHoule 5y agoNow you are cooking with gas! There are all kinds of 'browser extension' and most of them consume space, bandwidth, and cpu to no end. The one that would matter is the one that unifies both desktop and mobile browsers but it is not allowed by the browser makers because they don't want your data to be portable.
- helph67 5y agoThere are some search engines that respect your privacy. https://www.ecosia.org/ https://www.ecosia.org/ https://www.qwant.com/ https://www.qwant.com/