Historically, Googling tech questions would yield a link to the appropriate section of the official documentation, relevant posts from Stack* or personal tech blogs, and maybe a wikipedia/c2 article.<p>However, as of late (~past 6 months), 30-50% of the results are w3schools-esque sites like "tutorialspoint.com", "thegeekdiary.com", "cyberciti.biz", "geeksforgeeks.org", "thegeekstuff.com", "appdividend.com"... all providing some ugly, ad-littered rehash of the real documentation. This occurs even in an anonymous Google session [0].<p>While the official docs are <i>usually</i> still first, they are increasingly getting overshadowed by these terrible results, particularly in the Google featured snippet [1]. Both ddg and bing seem to suffer from the same problem.<p>Is the pagerank of these sites legitimate, or the result of some new SEO tactic? Is this phenomenon actually as recent as it seems? Is there a centralized list of such websites somewhere that I can blacklist?<p>[0] https://i.imgur.com/U0CKhrf.png
[1] https://i.imgur.com/TyWoKgS.png
> ad-littered rehash of the real documentation<p>It could very well be that ad-contaminated content is preferred because it's what pays Google's bills.