Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by benlivengood on Friday February 04, 2022 @11:33PM
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Python has been the worst for me; it's almost impossible to find the official documentation for modules/functions.
Defining search aliases or custom search engines in the browser with URLs like '''https://www.google.com/search?q=site:docs.python.org+%s''' is probably the reasonable thing to do.
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by soraminazuki on Friday February 04, 2022 @11:46PM
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https://devdocs.io is nice when you're searching for official documentation.
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by macintux on Saturday February 05, 2022 @12:20AM
(#30217856)
Reminds me of Dash: https://kapeli.com/dash
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by kristopolous on Saturday February 05, 2022 @01:16AM
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Thanks for dropping that link. This thing looks fantastic
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by throwaway2037 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @03:04AM
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I have the same experience. I assume these websites are just content farms trying to give away free introductory training for Python programming. Later, they try to upsell you to buy training. I see the same when Googling common Git issues.
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by sk5t on Saturday February 05, 2022 @02:15AM
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Ditto, moving from Scala to Python and Go for a stint shocked me with the craptacular state of search results for "easy/popular" languages. Next stop was an extension for blocking particular sites in search.
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by CodeGlitch on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:16AM
(#30219708)
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by _aavaa_ on Friday February 04, 2022 @11:34PM
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This has been a game changer for me. I got it for this very reason
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by shpongled on Saturday February 05, 2022 @12:12AM
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It is especially bad when all of those "tutorial" websites are pay-walled Medium sites too
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by llamataboot on Friday February 04, 2022 @11:47PM
(#30217576)
SO search results have also been broken for about 8 years unless you know how to filter for recent results. There is no good search on the internet anymore. I'm to the point where I wish I could !g2 bang DDG to go to the first result on the second page of search results.
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by xfer on Saturday February 05, 2022 @12:18AM
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This is sad and a recent development, i was using google to search for manuals/api docs as it was better than builtin indexing. But now-a-days official sites are never the first link.
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by randomsearch on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:23AM
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100%.
Spurious garbage SEO programming sites showing unhelpful code snippets in particular have had a big productivity hit on my coding.
I wonder what the people working on those sites think about what they’re doing.
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by Thev00d00 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:44AM
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Making money from Ads?
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by bspammer on Saturday February 05, 2022 @06:59AM
(#30220259)
Personally if I was making money at the expense of humanity’s ability to access knowledge, I wouldn’t feel so great about it.
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by Nerwesta on Saturday February 05, 2022 @01:11AM
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Same boat here, the only reason I switch DDG to Google was to find more relevance on programming / CS issues. But I feel like it's getting worse.
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by ngc248 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @01:56AM
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GeeksForGeeks is the prime culprit and lotsa times what geeksforgeeks has is just the docs.
Re:For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
by pyb on Saturday February 05, 2022 @06:42PM
(#30227580)
Agreed, the most vexing thing about this is that DDG is now promoting the exact same tutorial sites that Google is : Geekforgeeks, etc
What's the point in having different search engines if they copy each other's search results?
What the actual F has happened to google search results for programming issues?
I used to be able to google a question and get, more or less, a right answer from a forum or stack overflow.
Recently, many coding tutorial websites have clearly figured out how to hack googles pageranks and now instead of one 'right enough answer', its 5 clone 'tutorial' websites, with all the same crappy answer that isn't actually what I was asking. Like I can't use google for coding questions any more. Not like I was able to previously. Also, Stackoverflow with bangs from ddg are broken and it thinks I'm a robot. No answer except to go to SO directly and search.