Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Google search results?

Re:Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Googl... by ahurmazda on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @10:32AM (#29795799)

I tried you.com[1]. The first few results seem quite relevant. Best part is that you can actually personalize the weights to assign to your search (your very own bubble)

https://you.com/search?q=code%20that%20protects%20users%20fr...

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Re:Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Googl... by tobyjsullivan on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @12:33PM (#29797380)

This isn't the same search. The parent post had quotes around the phrase. You.com returns identical copy-cat results if you do the same search.

To be fair, not sure what other results we'd expect if we're going to search for a specific, plagiarized phrase.

Edit: actually, upon review, you.com does indeed give one extra useful result within the top three. So one point to gryffindor.

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Re:Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Googl... by tyingq on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @12:56PM (#29797687)

>To be fair, not sure what other results we'd expect if we're going to search for a specific, plagiarized phrase.

Yeah, I posted an exact search solely so people could see examples of the copycat sites. It's not a good example of a real life query in any way, and not useful for comparisons. It is interesting that Google puts one of the copycats above SO though.

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Re:Ask HN: Let's build an HN uBlacklist to improve our Googl... by ffhhj on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @12:00PM (#29796985)

I saw you.com displays some Code Complete snippets but the lines are too short and doesn't get the language highlighting, which make it harder to read. Nice try anyway.

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