Re:Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms
by thesmallestcat on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:45PM
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What does "authoritative" mean anyway? I don't want my search results to be authoritative, I want them to be relevant, varied, and interesting. Google is not an encyclopedia. Google fails recently at providing varied results, on any topic you get a Wikipedia article, a load of the same blogspam from sites like Guardian, Atlantic, or Daily Mail, and then the same 1-2 paragraph article repeated 15 times on content farm websites. It used to be a lot easier to find weird corners of the web.
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Re:Google blocked every one of the WSWS’s 45 top search terms
by adventured on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:02PM
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> Google is not an encyclopedia. Google fails recently at providing varied results, on any topic you get a Wikipedia article
That's not recent. Google has been returning Wikipedia as a near universal top result for a decade.
Regarding content farms, they overwhelmingly smashed the content farms with their panda & penguin updates years ago and have refined the destruction of content farms since then. Very few remain, much less sustain, outside of temporary niche corners.