Re:Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
by 1123581321 on Monday August 12, 2019 @05:46PM
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I don’t know how Google evaluates link aggregators. My comment was based on how Google evaluates content sites right now. I’m not saying it’s fair to Examine.com’s researchers and writers, as most of the replies to my comment appear to assume. I should have made that more clear.
Re:Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
by AhmedF on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:03PM
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They actually have published guidelines, and we meet them 100%.
Re:Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
by 1123581321 on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:14PM
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Indeed. I sincerely hope they improve the situation. A favorite site of mine, Metafilter, went through something similar a few years ago. Google cracked down on user-generated content too broadly, similar to here, and they have had a tough time recovering despite their care to follow the guidelines. It’s frustrating to see it happen again.
Re:Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
by AhmedF on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:38PM
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Yup! We even mentioned MF in our blog post.
Re:Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
by bob457 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @12:27AM
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I think HN follows the aesthetic, to a good extent, of a sparse text based doc page. Those kinds of sites rank high in my personal trustworthiness rubric.
The more something has been “designed”, the more the sight falls into the untrustworthy category, barring substantial evidence to the contrary.
Re:Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
by inetknght on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:26PM
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> Hacker News would never be, for me personally, on the top of the list of websites that inspire confidence by its looks, it's only when you delve into it and realise the content is actually great that you can appreciate it.
Other than the whole unchangeable orange theme, I think it's fairly easy to intuit.
Hacker News would never be, for me personally, on the top of the list of websites that inspire confidence by its looks, it's only when you delve into it and realise the content is actually great that you can appreciate it.
Such a shallow evaluation is quite strange coming from technical people who are used to mailing lists and all sorts of badly designed (or at least aesthetically unpleasing/neutral) pages...