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by codexon 3y ago
I still believe the original title is warranted. The fact that Google has to manually step in to intervene or else the big domains get all the top rankings tells you that they are very heavily biased towards big media domains.
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by codexon 3y ago
Not everyone has the time and resources to do SEO to beat big media companies at this game. Buying an old domain is a prime example.
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by codexon 3y ago
Google has always preferred top domains for a very long time, allowing them to abuse the rankings for years. One relevant example I can remember, OVH is the top result for servers in Japan yet they don't have any in Japan. https:&#x2F
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by codexon 3y ago
It is very risky but making your own website and having it be easily found should be the way the internet is supposed to work. One shouldn't have to make a youtube channel, constantly tweet, and manage a facebook group when a single we
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by codexon 3y ago
Google has been killing all but the most widely known domains for a very long time. I've mentioned this repeatedly on ycombinator multiple times, but only people who have made their own website 15 years ago and tried to grow it know wh
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by codexon 3y ago
I believe you are missing the crucial reason why all the people are consuming content in apps now. Google is in large part to blame for this, if not the main reason. Many years ago, Google started updating their search algorithm to heavily
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by codexon 3y ago
Yes it is, but other providers like microsoft and apple are even worse. When I moved my email server to a new IP a few months ago, while gmail sent my email to spam, live and icloud straight up blocked them. I did notice the rate limiting b
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by codexon 3y ago
It happened to me. Was permanently banned and I never made use of a service like what the OP mentioned. Now I am still using adsense but through a 3rd party that takes a large cut.
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by codexon 3y ago
Even if you don't use services like that, a competitor can easily use it for you to get you banned.
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by codexon 3y ago
Not everyone has access to that and the last time I checked, it was heavily limited and not allowed to do things like code.
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by codexon 3y ago
I'm talking about the mainstream ones like nordvpn and mulvad.
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by codexon 3y ago
GPT-3.5 is not good enough to replace Google. However GPT-4 is but it's not widely available.
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by codexon 3y ago
What work do VPN providers do get themselves unblocked?
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by codexon 4y ago
I don't see any reason for it to be less true now. Is python syntax worse than any brand new languages like rust or go? Absolutely not. It's still better. Did Google stop using it? I don't think so, but I also don't thin
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by codexon 4y ago
I can make some arguments but it all boils down to personal bias and anecdotes. The forced use of spacing to delineate blocks means you will never see a bunch of brackets eating up screen space and the common error where someone adds anothe
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by codexon 4y ago
I'm arguing against the point that it clearly did have the easiest syntax compared to the competition back then and not because Google was using it. Even if it doesn't have the best syntax now (which I doubt), the tooling and libr
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by codexon 4y ago
There were plenty of other languages competing with python for the same niche such as perl, ruby, js, php etc... Python is superior to all of those just for syntax alone, it is easier and cleaner to both read and write.
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by codexon 4y ago
It has always been a cesspool for a long time though. Only fit for consuming memes, cat pics, and financially motivated stunts like when Keanu Reeves was there the other day, using the social media account of the company for his upcoming fi
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by codexon 4y ago
It was probably linked to by other websites. I've been seeing more news organizations directly linking to reddit, and I believe Google manually boosted reddit results a few years ago. You used to never see them in search results, but n
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by codexon 4y ago
There are options on bitcoin futures and the bitcoin etf bito.
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by codexon 4y ago
I would never put financial passwords in a cloud based password manager. Even if they do everything perfectly encryption-wise, no one can guarantee an attacker wouldn't alter the client-side code to leak your master password. Having sa
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by codexon 4y ago
Speaking as someone who was mainly a "developer" for a while, one frequent problem I see from developers is that they assume they can excel at everything because they are good at coding. Since coding is a hard task that not everyo
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by codexon 4y ago
Marketing is a zero sum game to get people's attention. Attention is finite resource and you are competing with others for it. It isn't a trivial task that anyone can do, at least efficiently (paying the minimum amount for the max
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by codexon 4y ago
I've been here all the time, but it is hard to keep talking when you are shouted down by all the people who bought into crypto late and are trying to pump it higher. The last few comments I made on it. https://news.ycombinat
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by codexon 4y ago
I know this is going to be hard to prove, but I was banned forever because they detected "click fraud" which did not come from me. It was likely initiated by a competitor. Now I still use adsense, but now it is through a 3rd party
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by codexon 4y ago
The reason why there's more content on walled garden social media instead of personal websites is in no small part Google's fault and not just because of Facebook and Twitter. Google released several updates (such as "Panda&q
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by codexon 5y ago
I'd argue that a lot of the value priced into these currencies are based on the assumption that they'd be usable as a day-to-day currency someday.
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by codexon 5y ago
I've always tried to state the problems with crypto here every time it comes up, but there is such a huge incentive for the people invested in crypto to pump it, that every year the number of crypto pumpers grows more numerous than peo
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by codexon 5y ago
Why is it taking so long for proof of stake to happen? They've been talking about it for many years and the fact that none of the mainstream coins have moved to proof of stake and there is no rising new coin that uses it, make me think
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by codexon 5y ago
I just checked my account, no login attempts on my end. My master password is not stored or written down anywhere.

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