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I wonder maybe every other day if I could delist W3Schools, by maybe always adding a negating query aspect to the URL. But this all doesn't seem easily supporte
by sverhagen 5y ago
I wonder maybe every other day if I could delist W3Schools, by maybe always adding a negating query aspect to the URL. But this all doesn't seem easily supported, when I looked at it. Yep, hating on W3Schools with a passion. Younger self shot himself too often in foot with W3Schools.
- ROARosen 5y agoJust add the following in your Google search box: -w3schools.com
- sverhagen 5y agoI meant doing so without adding it to every search. But, hey, I clearly didn't have enough faith in humanity... not only am I now able to find some extensions to generally mess with my search queries, there's extensions freakin' DEDICATED to filtering out W3Schools!!! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=w3schools https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=w3schools (Edit: that doesn't mean I necessarily trust or recommend niche extensions like these.)
- skinkestek 5y agoWarning: unusual opinions sliding into a full fledged rant. I know it is cool to hate w3schools and I don't use it personally, but seriously, can we get over ourselves here? The reason why w3schools rank highly and have done for years is because for a large segment of users it works. And as someone else has pointed out the official documentation is often atrocious: both Python and Java online docs are close to worthless if you have a decent ide that shows you method signatures. PHP docs used to be a lot better in that they described what was going on and why and had comment sections that I imagine they also used as feedback to improve the docs. I haven't used PHP or Python for years but today there is Spring docs to drive me mad: telling me all the things I know and not telling me anything about how to interpret a Spring project. Spring is infinitely flexible and there are more ways to configure Spring than there are Spring programmers since most of them can't even configure two projects the same way ;-)
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- sverhagen 5y agoMy hate for W3Schools comes from the low quality of the content and the impression I get that their high ranking is only the result of SEO hacking. I respect the fact that there's a lot of _poor_ official documentation. But let's not supplant that with different _poor_ documentation.
- xapata 5y agoI can't speak for Java's docs, but Python's have good examples in the documentation that are not present in an IDE's tooltips. Further, there's often a handy link to the source code of the module.
- skinkestek 5y agoThinking back, yes it is probably true what you write about Python docs, the problem is you easily end up in the wrong docs when searching for something.
- xapata 5y agoI'm not sure why that's happening to you. Perhaps you're being misled by some SEO to click on pages that are sites trying to put advertisements in front of you?
- triceratops 5y agoYou don't have to use W3Schools (I prefer MDN myself) but you can forgive them. They've gotten better over time: https://www.w3fools.com/ https://www.w3fools.com/