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Yeah, I've seen this domain a lot lately. But I've complained about the Norwegian results for years [0]. For most searches there will be a result that's just ke

Yeah, I've seen this domain a lot lately. But I've complained about the Norwegian results for years [0]. For most searches there will be a result that's just keyword spam ranking high. Retried my "pes anserinus bursitt" search now 2 years later, and two results are spam from havfruen, and there are some other results from https://no.amenajari https://no.amenajari .org which is also just translated and scraped content for all languages google seems to love, as I've seen it for years. A third domain I often see as well is "nem-varmepumper". Apparently a site about heat pumps has content on everything. Can't fathom Google not catching this.. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21621099 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21621099

porbelm 5y ago
When I try that search, havfruen is seventh place. NHI and other good results at the top. YMMV a lot with Google results. For me, it's usually great where DDG is kinda crap, but not as bad as... shudder ... bing
- fogihujy 5y ago
  With DDG, I found this thread. Google set to Norway as region/language found nothing from havfruen4220.dk, unless I specifically added site:havfruen4220.dk in the search. My guess is that someone at Google reacted.
  - matsemann 5y ago
    Almost all my searches from the last days still show havfruen as a result somewhere. My pes anserinus above. Or "obos fellesgjeld" from a ~week ago which was when I noticed the pattern first. "monstera jord" gives lots of translated blogspam, and then a row of havfruen results. Switching language on Google has basically no effect. Sometimes I want to find Swedish results for a thing with the same name, but no matter what I do I get Norwegian results ranked first. So don't think this is easily emulated from abroad.
    - fogihujy 5y ago
      Yeah, that might be it. Finnish Google is rather useless in general -- especially for Swedish results -- and I expect the same for Norwegian ones.
  - eitland 5y ago
    Just unintentionally confirmed it was still there for me when I searched for Roblox gift cards.

porbelm 5y ago

When I try that search, havfruen is seventh place. NHI and other good results at the top. YMMV a lot with Google results. For me, it's usually great where DDG is kinda crap, but not as bad as... shudder ... bing

fogihujy 5y ago
With DDG, I found this thread. Google set to Norway as region/language found nothing from havfruen4220.dk, unless I specifically added site:havfruen4220.dk in the search. My guess is that someone at Google reacted.
- matsemann 5y ago
  Almost all my searches from the last days still show havfruen as a result somewhere. My pes anserinus above. Or "obos fellesgjeld" from a ~week ago which was when I noticed the pattern first. "monstera jord" gives lots of translated blogspam, and then a row of havfruen results. Switching language on Google has basically no effect. Sometimes I want to find Swedish results for a thing with the same name, but no matter what I do I get Norwegian results ranked first. So don't think this is easily emulated from abroad.
  - fogihujy 5y ago
    Yeah, that might be it. Finnish Google is rather useless in general -- especially for Swedish results -- and I expect the same for Norwegian ones.
- eitland 5y ago
  Just unintentionally confirmed it was still there for me when I searched for Roblox gift cards.