As internet forums die off, finding community can be harder than ever

Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by dzdt on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:36AM (#25151190)

In my experience Microsoft Bing does much better than Google at returning search results from old forums. Google has a bunch of things just flat out missing in its search index, even things I'm sure I found by Google years ago and that still exist on the same sites.

I obviously didn't check before you posted your comment, but I checked before I posted mine and Bing found your test case with no difficulty.

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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by Seanambers on Thursday November 19, 2020 @02:38PM (#25153483)

In my experience Google search results have gotten less and less informative for a very long time(last 4-6 years). Seems to me Google at some point in the past decided it wasn't going to show everything, only what it meant i needed to see, monetization on the other hand has gone up.

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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by ksec on Sunday November 22, 2020 @09:49AM (#25177834)

Agreed , although I give them the benefits of doubt because modern internet can make far more web pages than Google could keep up with indexing. Especially after the Smartphone took off and Internet seems to be exploding with Content Farm.

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