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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by blueboo on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:01PM (#26546080)
My experience is puzzlingly contrary to the unanimously-shared frustration above.

I tried this with a bunch of products ripe for spamming: instapot review, nvidia 3070 review, and Apple Watch review, and the first page results were almost entirely reputable.

I also tried “huggies vs pampers pull ups” and the result is quite a good variety of forum threads, blogs, and reputable articles. “Quasar formation” leads to Wikipedia, but also academic articles and astronomy.com. “How beer is made” is even better quality.

Is most of the web junk? Have I gotten astronomically lucky in not finding it? Are these somehow the exceptions that prove the rule?

(Ironically I think my search terms caused this comment to be flagged as spam..!)

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Re:In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click by fossuser on Monday March 22, 2021 @04:22PM (#26546378)
The results are better when the products are more common/famous (Nvidia card, instapot) since there will likely be reviews from The Verge or something that rank highly.

It's less common stuff that tends to give you mostly crap.

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