Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?

Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by grishka on Friday December 25, 2020 @04:18PM (#25539105)

Related: in the last several years, there started appearing these StackOverflow mirrors. It's gotten to the point that you can't google a programming question without running into at least one. Some copy the questions and answers verbatim, some use machine translation to (crappily) translate them into my native language. Sometimes they even rank higher than the real StackOverflow.

I really wish there was a non-hacky way to ban sites from Google search results. I also feel like Google's ranking algorithm is utterly broken since it's amenable to this kind of exploitation.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by johnsoft on Friday December 25, 2020 @10:27PM (#25541139)

I've seen the same, but with GitHub scrapers. One is called something like HappyGit, another is called GitMemory. And a lot of times Google thinks GitMemory is the original, so the _actual_ original source (GitHub) never even appears. So then I have to go to GitHub and try to find the original myself using snippets of text. Really makes my blood boil.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by dalmo3 on Friday December 25, 2020 @04:30PM (#25539189)

I've even had one of those spammy websites appear as the first result, in a "featured" box. It's just sad. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25437378

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by ratww on Friday December 25, 2020 @04:28PM (#25539172)

They're pretty old. I remember when Google added an option to block domains (the option you want) around 2011 and they were the first thing I removed from my results, along with Wikipedia mirrors.

After the option to block domains was removed around 2014-2015, I rarely came across those anymore, but it seems they're back...

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by jjeaff on Saturday December 26, 2020 @12:22AM (#25541608)

There are extensions to permanently block sites from results.

Like: personal blocklist https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by grishka on Saturday December 26, 2020 @01:23AM (#25541833)

I know these exist and I could as well write uBO rules to hide unwanted search results, that's why I said non-hacky ;)

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by ypcx on Saturday December 26, 2020 @03:37PM (#25546273)

Add this to your browser's search engines:

  Stack Overflow
  so
  https://www.google.com/search?q=%s (site:stackoverflow.com OR site:superuser.com OR site:stackexchange.com)

Then just begin the search by typing: so[spacebar]<your search term>

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by userbinator on Friday December 25, 2020 @06:42PM (#25540063)

I find those are actually useful from the perspective of being mirrors of content that the real SO has deleted for whatever reason.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by berkes on Saturday December 26, 2020 @03:44AM (#25542205)

I presumed it was just DuckDuckGo lacking algorithms to detect such 'spammers'.

But now I learned that Google is suffering the same poor detection. Another 'downside of using DDG debunked', I guess.

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by albertgoeswoof on Saturday December 26, 2020 @07:41AM (#25543089)

We are so biased towards google search being the perfect technology, that every flaw a competitor has is simply ignored on google.com

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Re:Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search re... by alfu on Friday December 25, 2020 @05:45PM (#25539646)

I've been seeing the same even in English language.

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