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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by asah on Thursday September 16, 2021 @09:31AM (#28551546)
Love it, kudos! This is great for developers and others who Just Need Answers and not shopping or entertainment.

If you're looking for feedback, both from a UI design and utility standpoint, you might consider "inlining" results from selected sites, e.g. Wikipedia, stacked change, etc. Having worked on search for a long time, inlining (onebox etc) is a big reason users choose Google, and that channelers fail to get traction. If you're Serious(tm), dog into the publisher structure formats and format those, create a test suite, etc.

A word of caution: if this takes off, as a business it's vulnerable to Google shifting its algorithms slightly to identify the segment of users+queries who prefer these results and give the same results to those queries.

Hope this helps!

Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by marginalia_nu on Thursday September 16, 2021 @09:42AM (#28551665)
If Google starts showing interesting text-heavy links instead of vapid listicles and storefronts, I have accomplished everything I ever could dream of.
Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by MaysonL on Thursday September 16, 2021 @09:35PM (#28560130)
Google Info - for when you're looking for information, not shopping advice or lists!
Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by wolverine876 on Friday September 17, 2021 @02:20PM (#28569034)
Maybe you're joking, but this is a good idea for search engine. Better: Credible info.
Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by addandsubtract on Friday September 17, 2021 @04:52AM (#28562879)
Google info? Can you give me a sample query of what you mean?
Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by kkiinnpptt on Saturday September 18, 2021 @02:45AM (#28574244)
It was a joke. The joke being that Google should launch at new product called Google Info, that would actually give you information when you search.
Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by palijer on Thursday September 16, 2021 @01:01PM (#28554270)
Haha, reminds me exactly of this.

https://xkcd.com/810/

Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by niutech on Monday September 20, 2021 @11:12AM (#28594672)
You can check the Web Vitals score of Google SERP-s using Core SERP Vitals (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/core-serp-vitals/o...) and filter out the worst results.
Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by 0xbadcafebee on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:23AM (#28552195)
Thank you for doing this important work.
Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by aaron5 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:18PM (#28559038)
haha, great answer! thanks for your work on this :)