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Re:Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google ... by ljm on Monday May 25, 2026 @11:09AM (#48267789)
What are the challenges of doing that when so much of the internet has turned itself into SEO slop to fit Google's algorithms?

I imagine there is still a whole load of stuff out there on the internet that Google would never surface because it doesn't have enough adsense or whatever. Are you finding that?

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Re:Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google ... by nobodywasishere on Monday May 25, 2026 @03:16PM (#48270536)
That's what SlopStop is for :) developing methodologies that scale for detecting slop.

I mean it sounds like that already has a lot of overlap with our Small Web indexing efforts, so that part of our indexing efforts could be an extension of that. A lot if this is still in development though so I can't speak on specifics just yet.

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Re:Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google ... by account42 on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:48AM (#48291479)
There is a very easy 90% solution to that: massively downrank everything with ads with some exceptions added as needed.
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