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I don't buy it. Google search of basic programming concepts give almost always as top results sites like geeksforgeeks and other Indian proto-spam sites with ve
by alecco 4y ago
I don't buy it. Google search of basic programming concepts give almost always as top results sites like geeksforgeeks and other Indian proto-spam sites with very obnoxious sign-up floats covering up everything, while the content is almost copy pasted from docs or other sites. Google rarely gives you the official documentation or tutorials at the top. You have to restrict with site: (to the point I have "search engines" doing just that "site:").
It seems there's a new one I haven't seen before called appdividend blog, from India too. And another one "DelftStack", allegedly from Netherlands (tweets from 2019 and weird lack of info). programiz, from Nepal (you have to dig to find it).
What should these search pages give, in order: Official documentation, then Stack Exchange and similar, then real people's blogs, and at the very bottom on page 25 these spammy copy-n-paste sites/blogs.
Google is full of developers, so they have to know about this but for some reason the company does nothing about it. Almost like the company is fully driven by ad revenue and doesn't want users to find actual content.
- infinityio 4y agoIt is a paid service, so probably not for everyone, but have you tried Kagi? It lets you 'pin' specific sites to the top, rank sites higher, rank sites lower, or block them entirely