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Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless

The only time google gets me better results than DDG now is if I have a really vague question, like “movie where the guy wears a trash bag on his leg and has a piña colada on the train to Milwaukee”

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brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
And super specific queries?

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Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
For me it’s programming issues. I guess devs know that doing SEO would shoot themselves in the foot.

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- ignism@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Could you elaborate? You’re saying you’re going to google for programming issues, but at the same time devs don’t do SEO?
  
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  - Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Sure. What I mean is that when I search for issues in duck duck go, I don’t see relevant results. But then I put “!g” and what I want (usually stack overflow or GitHub) comes to the top.
    
    So it makes sense that programming sites do tags and keywords properly to optimize things for the user instead of trying promote their site no matter what.
    
    At least that’s my guess anyway.
    
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    nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Stack overflow has been one of the consistently reliable googleable sites for decades.
    
    It’s a shame Quora has strayed so far from their initial cloning of SO’s site. It seems to be turning into AskYahoo 2 fast from the results I’ve seen lately.
    
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