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Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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I guess we all kinda knew that, but it's always nice to have a study backing your opinions.

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[–] Static_Rocket 34 points 10 months ago (36 children)

I need a better programming specific search engine. DuckDuckGo seems like it's gotten worse at code/project searches and will now just assume you misspelled some common word.

[–] lepinkainen 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (33 children)

I tried Kagi last fall because everyone was raving about it.

Now I’m paying $5/month for search and couldn’t be happier 😅

[–] schrodingers_dinger 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You may have changed my life with kagi. It is amazing so far at giving the results I want, and categorizing stuff like discussions so you don't have to add "Reddit" at the end of every search to get decent results.

[–] lepinkainen 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And you can easily block or boost sites in the search results: I've got all pinterest domains blocked, along with a bunch of "news" outlets that don't actually produce anything good in the world.

Similarly I have stuff like reddit, hackernews etc boosted in the results if they match.

I did the free trial for a while and only used Kagi for a while, still going strong with the $5 300 searches per month tier. I don't really need to search that much because the results are usually correct the first time :)

[–] schrodingers_dinger 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yep. I'm 100% sold on it. Thank you very much kind human. It's crazy how used to Google I had become. Not thinking about features which would be helpful like simply raising/lowering a sites visibility. It even has done well for me when it comes to local searches! Truly a game changer.

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