Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?

Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by mrweasel on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:59AM (#29394315)

> Also, I am by now 100% sure that Google has just stopped indexing the long tail.

Rather weird if true, but I can't really disagree with your observation. It seems like large parts of the web have disappeared in the last five to ten years.

Google do most likely index the sites, but their current algorithm just don't use them, because it as much a promotion algorithm at it is search.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by gambiting on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @01:18PM (#29395466)

I have a public repo on GitHub that just doesn't show up on Google.

Search for "github drv8830pico" - it's literally not in any results.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by fxtentacle on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:39PM (#29396472)

Haha I just tried and guess what? Your comment was the only result.

Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? https://news.ycombinator.com › item 4 hours ago — But of course, it's still on GitHub. ... Search for "github drv8830pico" - it's literally not in any results.

DuckDuckGo works fine, though.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by prox on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @03:18PM (#29396946)

Yeah, this comment chain pretty sums up my experience. Google has become AltaVista.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by rightbyte on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @05:21PM (#29398236)

AV respected your querries if I remember correctly.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by forty on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @05:47PM (#29398435)

And now thanks to you, google recommends me to look into DuckDuckGo for that search https://ibb.co/WKg4h6Z :D

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by Darkskiez on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @03:55AM (#29402022)

Weird, is this it? https://github.com/WojTechnical/drv8830pico

Maybe there's no links to it from other places, or somewhere on github thats crawled / indexed frequently enough.

Considering this comment thread is seemingly quickly indexed, just posting this link might be enough!

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by gambiting on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @04:54AM (#29402287)

Yep, that's it - and indeed, HN comment got indexed pretty much instantly by google, but for some reason that repo has been up for a few months and just doesn't show up at all(and it's not like google never shows any results from github either, so no idea what's going on - as someone else pointed out, it comes up first on DuckDuckGo just fine)

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by onionisafruit on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @08:18PM (#29399537)

It seems like a lot of github.com pages were removed from google’s index about six months ago.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by bserge on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @01:32PM (#29395655)

Actually, that might be because of their antispam filters. They were always fighting websites with countless subdirectories or subdomains, having completely wiped them off their SERPs in the past.

GitHub does fit the "huge website with lots of duplicate content" description very well.

Then again, Twitter seems to be doing fine. But I have a suspicion that they have some sort of agreement (and GitHub doesn't), because I have to regularly "report as spam" (note how that implies Google decides what's spam and what isn't) Twitter emails and they still pop up in the inbox after a while.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by verve_rat on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @03:32PM (#29397090)

Maybe, but then you get all the GitHub issue clone sites and all the Stackoverflow clone sites showing up at the top of the results with the original no where to be seen.

It might be anti-spam, but how is it this shit?

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by gambiting on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:50PM (#29396618)

I mean, that's probably true, I just made this repo specifically to help people who are looking to control a DRV8830 chip from the raspberry Pico, and I'm not sure how anyone is supposed to find it if there is no combination of "raspberry pi" and "DRV8830" that would get you to that repo on Google.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by der-ofenmeister on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @04:09PM (#29397483)

Well, ads and information are at direct competition, and we all know who's winning the battle. It seems Bing is better for most searches now, even technical ones because they seem to index more of github and stackoverflow than Google.

Man, ads really are the devil.

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