Re:The Fall of Stack Overflow
by ajross on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @12:20PM
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Is that actually true though? So, I literally just went to Google this morning for a toddler python question (very much not my first language, heh).
"how to load a file all at once in python" returns a first hit pointing to a blog post answering the question correctly, a second pointing to a SO answer that is actually for a slightly different problem but contains the correct answer, answer #3 is a youtube video that probably answers the question correctly.
Geeks4geeks doesn't show up until #4, well below Stack Overflow. (FWIW, their answer was fine too).
> You seriously can't find useful anything these days using Google.
That really feels more like a meme than reality. Are there other subareas where the SEO is doing better than this one? It seems like a pretty representative question.
"how to load a file all at once in python" returns a first hit pointing to a blog post answering the question correctly, a second pointing to a SO answer that is actually for a slightly different problem but contains the correct answer, answer #3 is a youtube video that probably answers the question correctly.
Geeks4geeks doesn't show up until #4, well below Stack Overflow. (FWIW, their answer was fine too).
> You seriously can't find useful anything these days using Google.
That really feels more like a meme than reality. Are there other subareas where the SEO is doing better than this one? It seems like a pretty representative question.