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I've also noticed Google having indexing issues over the past ~year: Some popular models on Hugging Face never appear in the results, but the sub-pages (discus

I've also noticed Google having indexing issues over the past ~year: Some popular models on Hugging Face never appear in the results, but the sub-pages (discussion, files, quants, etc.) do. Some Reddit pages show up only in their auto-translated form, and in a language Google has no reason to think I speak. (Maybe there's some deduplication to keep machine translations out of the results, but it's misfiring and discarding the original instead?)

sischoel 10mo ago
The issues with auto-translated Reddit pages unfortunately also happens with Kagi. I am not sure if this is just because Kagi uses Google's search index or if Reddit publishes the translated title as metadata. I think at least for Google there are some browser extensions that can remove these results.
- black_puppydog 10mo ago
  The Reddit issue is also something that really annoys me and i wish kagi would find some way to counter it. Whenever I search for administrational things I do so in one of three languages, German, French or English depending on which context this issue arises in. And I would really prefer to only get answers that are relevant to that country. It's simply not useful for me to find answers about social security issues in the US when I'm searching for them in French.
torben-friis 10mo ago
Reddit auto translation is horrible. It’s an extremely frustrating feeling, starting to read something in your language believing it’s local, until you reach a weird phrase and realise it’s translated English. It’s also clearly confusing users, as you get replies in a random language, obviously made by people who read an auto translation and thought they were continuing the conversation in their native language.
- morkalork 10mo ago
  I will google for something in French when I don't find the results I want in English. Sometimes google will return links to English threads (that I've already seen and decided were worthless!) auto-tranalated to French. As if that were any help at all..

sischoel 10mo ago

The issues with auto-translated Reddit pages unfortunately also happens with Kagi. I am not sure if this is just because Kagi uses Google's search index or if Reddit publishes the translated title as metadata. I think at least for Google there are some browser extensions that can remove these results.

black_puppydog 10mo ago
The Reddit issue is also something that really annoys me and i wish kagi would find some way to counter it. Whenever I search for administrational things I do so in one of three languages, German, French or English depending on which context this issue arises in. And I would really prefer to only get answers that are relevant to that country. It's simply not useful for me to find answers about social security issues in the US when I'm searching for them in French.

torben-friis 10mo ago

Reddit auto translation is horrible. It’s an extremely frustrating feeling, starting to read something in your language believing it’s local, until you reach a weird phrase and realise it’s translated English. It’s also clearly confusing users, as you get replies in a random language, obviously made by people who read an auto translation and thought they were continuing the conversation in their native language.

morkalork 10mo ago
I will google for something in French when I don't find the results I want in English. Sometimes google will return links to English threads (that I've already seen and decided were worthless!) auto-tranalated to French. As if that were any help at all..