A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by Nition on Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:08PM (#28556809)

The Wikipedia link at the top is always given. It would maybe be good to make it a little clearer that it's not one of the true results.

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by Ajef on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:23AM (#28563048)

I think this is just because of terms you have searched. In my test-searches Wikipedia has not come up once in first position (i think the highest was 3rd in the list).

Here's what I've tried with a few variations: golang generics proposal, machine learning transformer, covid hospitalization germany

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by Nition on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:54AM (#28563294)

I think maybe it's a special insert at the top, but only if a Wikipedia page is found that matches you search term? I'm not sure now though.

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