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2010 low tech Google is _exactly_ what I'm looking for. Everyone else in the search space (even paid search - kagi I'm looking at _you_!) seems to be under the

2010 low tech Google is _exactly_ what I'm looking for. Everyone else in the search space (even paid search - kagi I'm looking at _you_!) seems to be under the impression that it was abandoned because it didn't work but I'm pretty sure it was only abandoned because it didn't drive ad revenue. Moar power to you mate, if I wasn't busy with other things right now I'd be beating down your door!

topicseed 4y ago
But it's no longer possible to operate that way as they were getting gamed by SEO's. Today may look bad for searchers like us but it could be a lot worse. It's a constant battle.
- marginalia_nu 4y ago
  Really, are you sure?
- traverseda 4y ago
  Kagi seems to be returning pretty good results, from what little I've tried it
  - blep_ 4y ago
    I tried it earlier today, after seeing it mentioned in another thread. I gave it some queries where Google had recently frustrated me by returning nothing but affiliate marketing listicles. It returned the same results, but with some of the listicles helpfully sorted into a "listicles" section. The rest of the results were also listicles. It's entirely possible the content I'm looking for doesn't exist, drowned in a sea of SEO spam, but then I have little motivation to pay for a search engine to find it. On that note, does anyone have a good site and/or strategy for "I would like to buy a [product] with [two features that are uncommonly found together]" searches? Those seem to be the hardest ones to get good results for, because of the number of "BEST [product] OF 2023" lists that aren't filtered to what I actually asked for.
    - cshimmin 4y ago
      When I get listicle spam I tack "site: reddit.com" onto my query and usually get pretty organic, opinionated results. But of course you might come up dry if what you're looking for is really obscure.
      - Rastonbury 4y ago
        Be aware reddit is being "astro turfed" as they call it too

topicseed 4y ago

But it's no longer possible to operate that way as they were getting gamed by SEO's. Today may look bad for searchers like us but it could be a lot worse. It's a constant battle.

marginalia_nu 4y ago
Really, are you sure?
traverseda 4y ago
Kagi seems to be returning pretty good results, from what little I've tried it
- blep_ 4y ago
  I tried it earlier today, after seeing it mentioned in another thread. I gave it some queries where Google had recently frustrated me by returning nothing but affiliate marketing listicles. It returned the same results, but with some of the listicles helpfully sorted into a "listicles" section. The rest of the results were also listicles. It's entirely possible the content I'm looking for doesn't exist, drowned in a sea of SEO spam, but then I have little motivation to pay for a search engine to find it. On that note, does anyone have a good site and/or strategy for "I would like to buy a [product] with [two features that are uncommonly found together]" searches? Those seem to be the hardest ones to get good results for, because of the number of "BEST [product] OF 2023" lists that aren't filtered to what I actually asked for.
  - cshimmin 4y ago
    When I get listicle spam I tack "site: reddit.com" onto my query and usually get pretty organic, opinionated results. But of course you might come up dry if what you're looking for is really obscure.
    - Rastonbury 4y ago
      Be aware reddit is being "astro turfed" as they call it too