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I'm just gonna throw this out there as I'm noticing it more and more at this point since switching languages. What the actual F has happened to google search r
by RosanaAnaDana 5y ago
I'm just gonna throw this out there as I'm noticing it more and more at this point since switching languages.
What the actual F has happened to google search results for programming issues?
I used to be able to google a question and get, more or less, a right answer from a forum or stack overflow.
Recently, many coding tutorial websites have clearly figured out how to hack googles pageranks and now instead of one 'right enough answer', its 5 clone 'tutorial' websites, with all the same crappy answer that isn't actually what I was asking. Like I can't use google for coding questions any more. Not like I was able to previously. Also, Stackoverflow with bangs from ddg are broken and it thinks I'm a robot. No answer except to go to SO directly and search.
- benlivengood 5y agoPython has been the worst for me; it's almost impossible to find the official documentation for modules/functions. Defining search aliases or custom search engines in the browser with URLs like '''https://www.google.com/search?q=site:docs.python.org+%s https://www.google.com/search?q=site:docs.python.org+%s''' is probably the reasonable thing to do.
- soraminazuki 5y agohttps://devdocs.io https://devdocs.io is nice when you're searching for official documentation.
- macintux 5y agoReminds me of Dash: https://kapeli.com/dash https://kapeli.com/dash
- kristopolous 5y agoThanks for dropping that link. This thing looks fantastic
- sk5t 5y agoDitto, moving from Scala to Python and Go for a stint shocked me with the craptacular state of search results for "easy/popular" languages. Next stop was an extension for blocking particular sites in search.
- throwaway2037 5y agoI have the same experience. I assume these websites are just content farms trying to give away free introductory training for Python programming. Later, they try to upsell you to buy training. I see the same when Googling common Git issues.
- CodeGlitch 5y agohttps://zealdocs.org https://zealdocs.org
- _aavaa_ 5y agoThis has been a game changer for me. I got it for this very reason https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs
- llamataboot 5y agoSO search results have also been broken for about 8 years unless you know how to filter for recent results. There is no good search on the internet anymore. I'm to the point where I wish I could !g2 bang DDG to go to the first result on the second page of search results.
- shpongled 5y agoIt is especially bad when all of those "tutorial" websites are pay-walled Medium sites too
- xfer 5y agoThis is sad and a recent development, i was using google to search for manuals/api docs as it was better than builtin indexing. But now-a-days official sites are never the first link.
- Nerwesta 5y agoSame boat here, the only reason I switch DDG to Google was to find more relevance on programming / CS issues. But I feel like it's getting worse.
- ngc248 5y agoGeeksForGeeks is the prime culprit and lotsa times what geeksforgeeks has is just the docs.
- randomsearch 5y ago100%. Spurious garbage SEO programming sites showing unhelpful code snippets in particular have had a big productivity hit on my coding. I wonder what the people working on those sites think about what they’re doing.
- pyb 5y agoAgreed, the most vexing thing about this is that DDG is now promoting the exact same tutorial sites that Google is : Geekforgeeks, etc What's the point in having different search engines if they copy each other's search results?