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Yeah, it's clearly lacking. Either de-indexing many pages or just blocking them from the results, even when I use double quotes. Then I go to Yandex or somethi

Yeah, it's clearly lacking. Either de-indexing many pages or just blocking them from the results, even when I use double quotes. Then I go to Yandex or something and voila, it pops right up. I'm not sure I care enough to pay for Kagi but there's something very wrong with Google (and DDG, and Bing, etc)

akiselev 4y ago
It’s definitely deindexing pages. It’s been years since I’ve been able to locate one of my old HN rants via Google Search when it used to be the first result. Before all I had to use was my username + a politician’s name that I’ve only ever used once. After looking up the comment with Algolia and adding more keywords directly from the post, Google just gives up
- ramraj07 4y ago
  Genuinely curious, can you give both your name and the politician name in double quotes individually? Google has stopped requiring all terms to be present in search, this is a way of forcing it..
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  - akiselev 4y ago
    If I put the two words in quotes, the only result is this unrelated thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28162412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28162412 - I never replied in that thread, so it completely ignored my username despite the quotes but did contain one instance of the other search term. Just double checked Algolia and I actually have three comments that fit the query. Two posted nine years ago and one posted ten years ago. It's been at least three or four years since I was last able to use Google to find my comment. Edit: Turns out if quote the entire first line containing the name, Google finds the comment. It seems they're only purging parts of their index
  - fennecfoxy 4y ago
    Using double quotes used to do this...but for semi-obscure topics I notice Google search doesn't give a crap about the quotes, it'll latch onto one or neither of the terms.

akiselev 4y ago

It’s definitely deindexing pages. It’s been years since I’ve been able to locate one of my old HN rants via Google Search when it used to be the first result. Before all I had to use was my username + a politician’s name that I’ve only ever used once. After looking up the comment with Algolia and adding more keywords directly from the post, Google just gives up

ramraj07 4y ago
Genuinely curious, can you give both your name and the politician name in double quotes individually? Google has stopped requiring all terms to be present in search, this is a way of forcing it..
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- akiselev 4y ago
  If I put the two words in quotes, the only result is this unrelated thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28162412 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28162412 - I never replied in that thread, so it completely ignored my username despite the quotes but did contain one instance of the other search term. Just double checked Algolia and I actually have three comments that fit the query. Two posted nine years ago and one posted ten years ago. It's been at least three or four years since I was last able to use Google to find my comment. Edit: Turns out if quote the entire first line containing the name, Google finds the comment. It seems they're only purging parts of their index
- fennecfoxy 4y ago
  Using double quotes used to do this...but for semi-obscure topics I notice Google search doesn't give a crap about the quotes, it'll latch onto one or neither of the terms.