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Search engines prefer to show blog spam, ignore the terms I request, and disable the ability to exclude confounding terms (maybe that's just Bing). Forum discus
by readflaggedcomm 5y ago
Search engines prefer to show blog spam, ignore the terms I request, and disable the ability to exclude confounding terms (maybe that's just Bing). Forum discussions often link salient primary sources, which blog/news agencies are reluctant to do. Signal-to-noise on image boards and Reddit may be low, but it's still nonzero.
- version_five 5y agoAgree with this. If I were searching for something controversial but with some traction already, I'd be inclined to try reddit or even search through HN for links. A lot of non-mainstream but sometimes still reasonable stuff gets posted here and just not voted up. Censorship is less the problem on bigger search engines than the fact that there's nothing to sell on a search for something controversial. At best you're likely to get the most extreme "fox news" (or worse) inflammatory version, necause you're more likely to click on it, if you are able to successfully search on a regular engine.