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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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