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Surely they could just have a system to filter out bad sites? For example, if I want information about some programming stuff, I only really want * Wikipedia
by heartbeats 5y ago
Surely they could just have a system to filter out bad sites?
For example, if I want information about some programming stuff, I only really want
* Wikipedia
* StackExchange
* MDN
* cpp-reference
* whatever official docs
There's absolutely no need to have
* geeksforgeeks
* w3schools
* cyberciti.biz
* random wordpress blogs
This takes all of 5 minutes to code, you could even have a userscript for it.
- zo1 5y agoGoogle benefits from a chaotic and spam-filled ecosystem. At this point technology and network speed are at a point that anyone could re-code a Google if all they did was ignore 99.9% of the wesites out there that are crap and that Google (and Amazon and a few other spam-benefiters) had a hand in creating or promoting. This is why Adwords has to go. It allowed Google to weaponize the collective man-power of the world to create and regurgitate new ad-space for Google to monetize. Ad-space that didn't exist, and doesn't need to exist.
- Volker_W 5y agouBlacklist exists
- hattmall 5y agoI have no problems with and frequently use w3schools. I also find tons of programming content on other sites where people post code they are working on or tips. I don't know that I've ever really referenced Wikipedia for anything programming. I normally just do a Stack Exchange site search through google. I feel like this is the only area where Google search is still decent, but anything after the first page, maybe second is like literally nonsense.