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Ask HN: How can we mitigate the ill-effects of a worsening Google Search?

3 pointsby hidden-spyderalmost 4 years ago
The amount of SEO-spam I encounter on my searches has definitely grown a lot.<p>I&#x27;m a bit afraid that this will make it more difficult, if not impossible, to reach good webpages. Personal blogs seem like they&#x27;re not prioritized anymore. I have to append operators like `site:<i>.github.io` or `site:reddit.com` to get good results now.<p>Does anyone have any idea on how we could work on mitigating this degradation of search results?<p>Creating manually maintained lists of the best resources, blog posts, discord servers, articles, videos, etc. related to a topic seems like a viable solution to me. Some subreddits maintain their own wikis that already achieve this for some topics and so do the awesome-</i> repos on GitHub, but these are few in number.<p>I want to see more efforts being poured into this, but see no community actively working on this with goals in sight. Do their exist any that I have missed? Or is anyone interested in creating one? I&#x27;d be happy to help!

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max_hammeralmost 4 years ago
You can exclude domains from your search using `my_search_string -site:example.com`. A better solution is to use duckduckgo[1] for search.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;</a>
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jack-bodinealmost 4 years ago
Check out &#x27;<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;millionshort.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;millionshort.com</a>&#x27;<p>It gives you options to remove the top X number of most popular sites from your results.
pasttense01almost 4 years ago
See this thread:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23202850" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23202850</a>
ColinHayhurstalmost 4 years ago
Yes, this is a problem. Feel free to contact me.