Geeksforgeeks and w3school are the reason why I always have a searcb engine blacklist extension.
I would be focused on a task, and quickly want to search the documentation for a thing, and then get presented with only examples, and sometimes (if you're really lucky) one or two properties of the API. Oh right, I clicked the first link, not the second one, I was wondering why MDN didn't load in dark mode.
Now can we start penalizing Medium and all of its junk properties. I'm tired of being forced to sign in to a site just to read low effort and quality coding blog posts that have zero depth. And most of the new stuff is all clearly AI generated.
speculatively (because I don't really know why), but Google's ranking algorithm is multi-channel and incorporates a very subjective "quality" score. GeeksForGeeks is low quality (according to Google, though I agree).
they might also be doing other things, like link-farming or similar, that Google is penalizing them for. I dunno.
Shad_Amethyst@reddit
Geeksforgeeks and w3school are the reason why I always have a searcb engine blacklist extension.
I would be focused on a task, and quickly want to search the documentation for a thing, and then get presented with only examples, and sometimes (if you're really lucky) one or two properties of the API. Oh right, I clicked the first link, not the second one, I was wondering why MDN didn't load in dark mode.
lcd650@reddit
Now can we start penalizing Medium and all of its junk properties. I'm tired of being forced to sign in to a site just to read low effort and quality coding blog posts that have zero depth. And most of the new stuff is all clearly AI generated.
Ok-Bank9873@reddit
The quality was dubious and it pollutes good results from other sources like stackoverflow, stackexchange, Wikipedia and cppreference
-jp-@reddit
If they could shadowban Quora and Fextralife too their search engine might actually be useful again.
programming-ModTeam@reddit
Your posting was removed for being off topic for the /r/programming community.
klaasvanschelven@reddit
They were in the top 25 or so for Kagi blocking, so this seems entirely justified.
The only question is: what took them so long?
Source: https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard&k=-2
SophisticatedAdults@reddit
Sounds like an improvement to me. That site was (generally speaking) just not very good?
They showed up on so many queries when I really just want the python docs or stack overflow. So yes, I'm happy.
MagicalEloquence@reddit
Why did Google do this ?
AnxiouslyCalming@reddit
The $10 I pay for Kagi makes more and more sense as time goes on. I'm never going back to Google or ad driven search.
metaphorm@reddit
speculatively (because I don't really know why), but Google's ranking algorithm is multi-channel and incorporates a very subjective "quality" score. GeeksForGeeks is low quality (according to Google, though I agree).
they might also be doing other things, like link-farming or similar, that Google is penalizing them for. I dunno.