Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser

Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in ... by eloisius on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:19AM (#28927735)

I just found a timely example of one of these sites that republish GitHub issues as their own content. Trying to understand a fairly specific Tensorflow error. Pasted an exact phrase query and the top result is gitmemory dot com. The content is horribly formatted, obviously just a low-effort scrape job. The author is attributed, but the link links to another page on this site that even says it just pull the data straight from GitHub's API. The footer links to another website, uonfu dot com. It looks even worse, and doesn't even try to attribute the original author of the content.

https://search.brave.com/search?q=%22%27tensorflow.python.fr...

> If you are wondering where the data of this site comes from, please visit https://api.github.com/users/.../events. GitMemory does not store any data, but only uses NGINX to cache data for a period of time. The idea behind GitMemory is simply to give users a better reading experience.

Better reading experience, my ass.

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Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in ... by Arnavion on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:08AM (#28928055)

Yes, I hate it when I get results for that site. It also squeezes out the original github.com URL for that content from the search results, as you said, so I can't even solve it by writing an extension to hide it from search results.

Luckily the original URL is easy to recover from its URL ( https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/26922 in your case), so I just copy the URL from the search result and fix it up manually.

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Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in ... by userbinator on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @09:25AM (#28930359)

On the other hand, I actually like the fact that such mirror sites exist, because they often have content that's disappeared from the original for whatever reason. The name GitMemory is itself suggestive of that.

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Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in ... by eloisius on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:20AM (#28941789)

Mirrors can exist without gaming search to supplant canonical sources

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Re:Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in ... by Proven on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:33AM (#28929882)

Worst shitsite on the web. It contains nothing useful, original or unique. I'd like to know what's Google's excuse for blacklisting that domain into oblivion.

I have a greasemonkey script that blocks domains from being shown in GSE results. Works well, but I don't have it on all of my browsers.

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