Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

  • @[email protected]
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    02 years ago

    Sounds plausible yeah, so I haven’t gone crazy haha, it really is annoying since usually the new results are also worse than the first batch in my experience. Guess I’ll just pick up the habit of opening everything in a new tab from the get go

    • @[email protected]B
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      02 years ago

      the new results are also worse than the first batch in my experience.

      FWIW I thought the same. Seems like every search engine turns to doo with time.

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          12 years ago

          I feel like that would be more easily gameable. SearXNG relies on results from other engines and there’s this one distributed one that’s apparently basically useless for most searches. Do with that info what you will. ~Nai

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            02 years ago

            My wish would be for a free search engine, not a meta search engine, but it doesn’t seem like there is much interest for that, mainly because it highly demanding in terms of complexity, but most importantly resources to run it.

            I feel like that would be more easily gameable.

            I’m sorry, what does that mean?

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              02 years ago

              If the algorithm is made open source, it’ll likely be even easier for spammers to exploit it to spam SEO crap. ~Nai

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                12 years ago

                I kind of doubt that they would optimize for an underdog in the search engine space, they’d be spending money on something fundamentally unprofitable, also because there’s going to be a high overlap between the users of such an engine and those who would use an ad/content blocker