Google Probably Knows What Crap Results Are

Re:Google Probably Knows What Crap Results Are by jarin on Monday January 03, 2011 @12:07PM (#2063770)

Google does seem to be getting clogged up with crap results, but I can reliably find what I'm looking for within a few searches. Unfortunately, that's more than I can say for most of the alternative search engines right now. I had major frustration yesterday trying to find Ruby/Rails topics after switching to Blekko as my default search engine (even with the slashtags and everything). I gotta say that the /seo slashtag is awesome though.

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Re:Google Probably Knows What Crap Results Are by greglindahl on Monday January 03, 2011 @12:36PM (#2063897)

Did you try out /ruby ?

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Re:Google Probably Knows What Crap Results Are by jarin on Monday January 03, 2011 @12:38PM (#2063906)

I think so, I know I tried /rails though. I was looking for some ActiveSupport methods.

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Re:Google Probably Knows What Crap Results Are by greglindahl on Monday January 03, 2011 @01:05PM (#2064000)

During our beta we have only a limited crawl/index, 3 billion pages. Very specific technical queries and queries with a lot of words seem to suffer most.

Would you like to be an editor for the /ruby and /rails slashtags?

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Re:Google Probably Knows What Crap Results Are by jarin on Monday January 03, 2011 @01:10PM (#2064016)

Totally! I applied for /rails last night, I'll apply for /ruby too :)

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Re:Google Probably Knows What Crap Results Are by greglindahl on Monday January 03, 2011 @10:59PM (#2065796)

You're approved for both. And if you think they should be a single slashtag give a shout, I'm not that familiar with the Ruby community.

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