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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by chongli on Saturday June 30, 2018 @11:46AM (#17431233)
Forget pirate sites, Google is doing this for everything. I'm shocked at how often a search for some generic word or animal name brings up some company I've never heard of, with the Wikipedia page for that generic word buried at the bottom of the first page (sometimes pushed to the second page).
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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by digi_owl on Saturday June 30, 2018 @12:33PM (#17431435)
Really glad i switched to DDG for my random searches (i can always do a !g if i feel that the results are meaningless).
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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by Naga on Saturday June 30, 2018 @06:18PM (#17433021)
I switched to DDG permanently because of their other bangs. I am a baseball fan and regularly use FanGraphs to look at stats. If I google a baseball player, FanGraphs isn't even on the front page. Instead, I have news articles about him, tweets from him, and a bunch of other sites. With DDG, I can simply go "!fg jose bautista" and get exactly what I want. It really has saved me a lot of time and effort. Same thing with !w for wikipedia.
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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by kalleboo on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:38AM (#17439718)
Do other browsers not have site search in the address bar? In Safari, after visiting "fangraphs.com" once, I can just type "fang Some Name", press the down arrow to select the first suggestion, hit enter, and it searches that site.
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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by jamesb93 on Saturday June 30, 2018 @07:47PM (#17433309)
Wow... I always hated how sometimes the results for really niche things would not be found by DDG so I swapped back to evil corp search. I can't believe I haven't used these !g commands before! Thanks
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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by becomingknown on Saturday June 30, 2018 @12:21PM (#17431376)
That is because Google is a marketing platform than a search site.
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