Re:Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary
by geitir on Monday November 11, 2019 @08:04AM
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I don't know about overall quality of search, but did stack overflow do something to fall out of Google's good graces? I swear unless I specifically include stack overflow in my search query it's either near the bottom or not include at all. Instead it's a whole bunch of articles from independent websites. This is for questions I know fit the bill for stack overflow too. It's almost like Google is artificial lowering their ranking to decentralize the source of knowledge. That or stack overflow lost 70% of readership in 4 months
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Re:Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary
by DaiPlusPlus on Monday November 11, 2019 @08:16AM
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No repro here.
Google knows I land on StackOverflow results so often that SO results appear near the top, if not the #1 result, for terms that often have nothing to do with programming or computers. I was recently looking for an online thesaurus service and Google showed me an SO post about building linguistic/semantic search algorithms. Hmmm.
Re:Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary
by scrdhrt on Monday November 11, 2019 @11:38AM
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This is my experience too, and also in other areas. I have to include "stack overflow" or "forum" keywords to actually find something useful on the first or second page. Example: drone racing discussions.