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The acid test: can I find a brownie recipie without any fucking around? ...nope, I still can't.
by Fricken 3y ago
The acid test: can I find a brownie recipie without any fucking around?
...nope, I still can't.
- scotty79 3y agoMaybe some browser extension that extracts just recipe from all the ads and superfluous narrative crap?
- theamk 3y agoJust opened incognito window and entered "brownie recipe"... the first link is to "Love and Lemons" site which seems pretty good - there is a pretty small introduction, but then there is ingredients list, steps, etc.. top 5 links all look pretty good to me. (At least in web design area... I have no ideas if recipes themselves are tasty or not) Maybe it's a regional thing (I am in the US)? Or your profile is messed up? Try searching in incognito window.
- Fricken 3y agoThe first time I visited "Love and Lemons" (the first non-sponsored link I got) I scrolled down looking for the actual recipie until I gave up. Right before you made this comment I checked again and found the link to the recipie under the introduction as you described.
- satvikpendem 3y agoMost if not all recipe sites have a jump to recipe button, as de facto required by search engines.
- Fricken 3y agoWay too much fucking around.
- Moldoteck 3y agoto click on a button?
- kiicia 3y agoYes, issue is why this button even exist instead of actual content being first and foremost
- Fricken 3y agoYes. I wasn't searching for a button, I was searching for a brownie recipie
- al_borland 3y agoIf the developer has to put that button on the site, they’ve already failed. They know it’s a poor design, and are trying to add features to point to that will absolve them, instead of fixing the core problem which wouldn’t force the user to look for a skip button. First time users of a site have no reason to look for a button like that, when the standard control of every other site for decades has been to scroll. I also just went to the site. When I went to tap the jump link, a modal popped up and blocked me. I dismissed that and tapped the link and it jumped me down the page to yet another request to sign up for a newsletter I don’t want. Now the top 3rd of the page is a video that started to auto-play; I had to tap to dismiss that. When I scrolled into the recipe section I got yet another modal trying to get me to sign up for an account so I can save the recipe… as if bookmarks don’t exist. I dismissed that, and now I can see the recipe. There are 3 ads in the middle of the recipe that break it up, some with more auto-playing video, and the scroll keeps readjusting itself based on ads and BS popping in and out. The bottom of the page also has an ad banner to dismiss, a bookmark icon that bounces occasional (which is certainly just another attempt to get me to create an account), links to other recipes are sliding in and out depending on the direction I scroll, to try to get me to go other places on the site… and to top it off, the Pinterest flag blocks content, depending on where I scroll, while sometimes being blocked itself by the aforementioned recipe slide-in. How can anyone defend all this? It’s horrible.
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- lupire 3y agoIs that really a ranking signal?
- browningstreet 3y agohttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=brownie+recipe&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=brownie+recipe&ia=web Returned Love and Lemons first too. Never heard of them, but their SEO must be amazing.
- locuscoeruleus 3y agoKagi gave me the same
- kiicia 3y agoSo kagi displays spam in the same way as other search engines do
- gloosx 3y agoI'm pretty sure it's because they integrated some google thing in order so show that rating and reviews right below the search result. It has the highest rating/amount or reviews ratio so it feels like this logic is putting it to the first result. Will be not surprised if most of these comments and reviews are some language models talking to each other, it's a bit uncommon to see THOUSANDS of comments, ratings and reviews on a recipe site, probably SEO optimisation.
- NikkiA 3y agoI get BBC Good Food as the first response, which is even better.
- wackget 3y agoJust checked out Love and Lemons. Sorry but I can't say it impressed me at all. The vast majority of the page is blogspam garbage. Nobody needs a ten-paragraph introduction and an explanation of why you're using cocoa powder and vanilla in a brownie recipe. Interestingly the first result for "brownie recipe" for me is BBC Food which is about as close to no-BS as you'll find.
- FragrantRiver 3y agoYour brownies are probably going to suck. Just because you can't be arsed to read more than two sentences about how to do something doesn't mean others can't.
- nullhole 3y agoIt's 299 words (so close to a round number!) of worse-than-useless filler before the recipe. You get two amazon sponsored links and one blog plug for some author with that. There's also an interstitial you have to click through. I can see why GP was not impressed.
- pb7 3y agoThe very first thing on the page is a "Jump to recipe" link. If you too are a victim of dwindling attention spans like the rest of us, you have the option to skip straight past the beautiful photos and background.
- BugsJustFindMe 3y agoThe article says they're announcing in advance, so maybe whatever they plan to do hasn't happened yet.
- neilv 3y agoNever tell a Googler what the metric is. Cue a flood of aspiring L6 promo packets with detailed numbers on improved brownie recipe ranking.
- reaperman 3y agoHey, as long as it gets Sally’s Baking Addiction[0] ranked at the top I’m all for it. 0: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/ https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/
- js2 3y agoMy go to site for baking recipes is Smitten Kitchen. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Asmittenkitchen.com%20brownies https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Asmittenkitchen.... I realize adding `site:...` is probably fucking around. But trust me, her brownie recipes are worth it. :-)
- celdon25 3y agoIsn’t the point of Google search to not have to do that?
- js2 3y agoSure, that's why I added the disclaimer. I'm just trying to help Fricken out with some good brownie recipes. Google lists dozens of recipe sites when I search for "brownie recipes" and honestly, how many different ways can you change a basic brownie recipe. So I'm sure almost any of them will do. Any seems like reasonable result. I'm not sure what algorithm Google should use to pick the best or most reliable recipe site. I just happen to know, having cooked many of SKs recipes, that they are good recipes that almost anyone can follow.
- lmm 3y agoThey're not trying to find a good brownie recipe. They're using it as a test phrase for search engines.
- datavirtue 3y agoMy go-to site is King Arthur's 200th Anniversary Cook Book. Literally zero fucking around, packed with every classic baking recipe known to man, and gobs of straight-forward baking chemistry lessons a five year old could understand. Empowerment.
- datavirtue 3y agoKatherine Hepburn has the brownie thing smacked down. Look no further.
- terribleperson 3y agoI'm sure you have a recipe already, but I'd like to highly recommend Stella Parks' brownie recipe, and even more highly recommend her blondie recipe with malted milk and browned butter.
- blindstitch 3y agoGo back to a simpler time... `before:2015 inurl:blogspot.com`
- buildsjets 3y agoI googled MIL-C-44072 and it popped right up. http://everyspec.com/MIL-SPECS/MIL-SPECS-MIL-C/MIL-C-44072C_24608/ http://everyspec.com/MIL-SPECS/MIL-SPECS-MIL-C/MIL-C-44072C_...
- alfiedotwtf 3y agoI had to squint to see the actual content
- buildsjets 3y agoThat’s what she said about you, too. Hey-o!
- vtns 3y agoI just use the Wikimedia Cookbook: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Table_of_Contents https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Table_of_Contents