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Re:Ask HN: Is Google Search Dying? by lumost on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:26AM (#27050261)
This is going into technical documentation as well. Even for tensorflow/keras related questions on specific methods the tensorflow documentation is at position ~5-10. Sites that literally just copy a random version of the docs are ranked higher...
Re:Ask HN: Is Google Search Dying? by Mediterraneo10 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:56PM (#27052442)
> Sites that literally just copy a random version of the docs are ranked higher...

Recently I put something together in Common Lisp, a language I’m a novice at, so I often had to search. The first result returned in all my Google searches was a copycat website. Someone had clearly taken some previous high-quality Lisp reference and extensively rewritten it to avoid copyright violation, then loaded it with SEO. However, their English was rather poor and so this rewrite was a pain to read.

I would love a search engine that would allow me to zap certain domains and hide them permanently from results, but at the same time without retaining information about me for advertising purposes.

Re:Ask HN: Is Google Search Dying? by freediver on Monday May 10, 2021 @01:43AM (#27103081)
I am building one. We are in private beta. Details in my profile.
Re:Ask HN: Is Google Search Dying? by dcminter on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:32AM (#27050330)
Yeah, I'm learning Rust at the moment. Searching on that is ... pretty good. Searching on Java stuff turns up soooo much crap. Presumably because the search volume is vast enough to make infospamming worthwhile :'(
Re:Ask HN: Is Google Search Dying? by RhysU on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:01PM (#27058310)
It would be interesting to study how the uniqueness of new programming language names and the superior technical search results they bring about causes programmers to adopt new languages as time wears on.