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You used to be able to find them deep in search results but now it’s all blogspam. It’d be nice if this stuff was easier to find.
by duncan-donuts 3y ago
You used to be able to find them deep in search results but now it’s all blogspam. It’d be nice if this stuff was easier to find.
- varjag 3y agoYes you used to be able maybe in mid/late-aughties. This is not something recent.
- stOneskull 3y agohow about a search engine that ranks higher the less ads there are
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- phatskat 3y agoI get this metric but at what point is the cutoff? If a small home run website has good info and gets popular, and has to add more advertisements, do they then get deranked on the search engine that led people there?
- stOneskull 3y agoonly if there is something with the same info with less ads
- JohnFen 3y ago> If a small home run website has good info and gets popular, and has to add more advertisements More advertisements? Any advertisements make the site worse. More makes it more worse. It's so inexpensive to have a website these days, even one that pulls in a substantial number of visitors, that it's hard to make an argument that ads are necessary to pay for hosting.
- phatskat 3y agoOh for sure, just a hypothetical lol. And idk maybe you write software or something that you want to keep as free as you can, so ads make it doable to sustain that. There’s any number of valid reasons to advertise, and if it’s a site for content I support I’ll probably turn of ublock so long as the ads aren’t overwhelming or obstructing
- frogulis 3y agoIf you've missed all the HN love for it over the past while, there's a search engine here: https://search.marginalia.nu/ https://search.marginalia.nu/ which is trying to achieve just that