Cue a flood of aspiring L6 promo packets with detailed numbers on improved brownie recipe ranking.
Maybe it's a regional thing (I am in the US)? Or your profile is messed up? Try searching in incognito window.
I also just went to the site. When I went to tap the jump link, a modal popped up and blocked me. I dismissed that and tapped the link and it jumped me down the page to yet another request to sign up for a newsletter I don’t want. Now the top 3rd of the page is a video that started to auto-play; I had to tap to dismiss that. When I scrolled into the recipe section I got yet another modal trying to get me to sign up for an account so I can save the recipe… as if bookmarks don’t exist. I dismissed that, and now I can see the recipe. There are 3 ads in the middle of the recipe that break it up, some with more auto-playing video, and the scroll keeps readjusting itself based on ads and BS popping in and out. The bottom of the page also has an ad banner to dismiss, a bookmark icon that bounces occasional (which is certainly just another attempt to get me to create an account), links to other recipes are sliding in and out depending on the direction I scroll, to try to get me to go other places on the site… and to top it off, the Pinterest flag blocks content, depending on where I scroll, while sometimes being blocked itself by the aforementioned recipe slide-in.
How can anyone defend all this? It’s horrible.
Returned Love and Lemons first too. Never heard of them, but their SEO must be amazing.
Interestingly the first result for "brownie recipe" for me is BBC Food which is about as close to no-BS as you'll find.
I can see why GP was not impressed.
That would be a major problem for hand curated indexes.
I can’t even fathom how anybody thinks that this is fine on any level (from the mentioned site, the first result about brownies for me, and one of the first few paragraphs). For a while, I rather pay for cooking and recipe books, because wasted time on these texts would worth way more than that money. Especially that even the recipes themselves are terrible most of the time on the internet.
But after a thread a few months ago here on HN, in which people praised w3schools how it’s really a good site, I’m not surprised on anything. If the people who really should know how these things work, and that there are better free alternatives for all content on that site, even encourage this bullshit, then this won’t improve at all.
- you can take notes in the margins
- you can find your favorite recipes quickly because the pages are all stained and wrinkled
- you can reward the author for all the time they spent testing and honing those recipes
The real depressing thing here is the amount of whining about "wasted time" from folks looking for free cooking instructions on the 'Net. It's almost as bad as the "gimme teh codez" jerks on forums.
FWIW, I like this brownie recipe (and have purchased the book it comes from, twice): https://www.seriouseats.com/bravetart-glossy-fudge-brownies WARNING: contains even more words than the "love and lemons" page.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Asmittenkitchen....
I realize adding `site:...` is probably fucking around. But trust me, her brownie recipes are worth it. :-)
Google lists dozens of recipe sites when I search for "brownie recipes" and honestly, how many different ways can you change a basic brownie recipe. So I'm sure almost any of them will do. Any seems like reasonable result. I'm not sure what algorithm Google should use to pick the best or most reliable recipe site.
I just happen to know, having cooked many of SKs recipes, that they are good recipes that almost anyone can follow.
http://everyspec.com/MIL-SPECS/MIL-SPECS-MIL-C/MIL-C-44072C_...
...nope, I still can't.