1. Site diversity is non existant . Nearly every term results same handful sites. Proof [0]
2. Actual blogs are not shown in serps . I have to use blogger and wordpress in search term to find blogs but it exculdes all the blogs that are not blogger or wordpress .
3. Way too much focus on reddit compared to all other forums. Its like both people and google both forgot forums other than reddit exist.
4. Too many non related articles .
5. Got too many seo optimized junk ? Just go to page ten or twenty . Turns out google now capped search results to a few hundred . And bing ? The pages become irrelevant at the later pages.
Workarounds I use :
1. Adding hackernews does improve my serp that are related to to tech .
2. limiting my search results to a old date/month improves the serp .
3. Marginalia [1] and kagi occasionally helps .
4. Sometimes I use absurdly long keywords .
5. Sometimes i use a search engine from here [2] to see if it gives better results or not which usually turn out to be not .
6. Yandex sometimes work but not always .
In short : The current search quality is terrible and finding smallweb ,forums and blogs are even more difficult .
That google-control article shines a big light on the problem. If all the companies are own by the same parent, they'll naturally follow the same strategy to maximise clicks.
Have I finally found the reason this why all recipe sites operate the same dysfunctional way??
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It has gotten really terrible , some examples :
1. Site diversity is non existant . Nearly every term results same handful sites. Proof [0]
2. Actual blogs are not shown in serps . I have to use blogger and wordpress in search term to find blogs but it exculdes all the blogs that are not blogger or wordpress .
3. Way too much focus on reddit compared to all other forums. Its like both people and google both forgot forums other than reddit exist.
4. Too many non related articles .
5. Got too many seo optimized junk ? Just go to page ten or twenty . Turns out google now capped search results to a few hundred . And bing ? The pages become irrelevant at the later pages.
Workarounds I use :
1. Adding hackernews does improve my serp that are related to to tech .
2. limiting my search results to a old date/month improves the serp .
3. Marginalia [1] and kagi occasionally helps .
4. Sometimes I use absurdly long keywords .
5. Sometimes i use a search engine from here [2] to see if it gives better results or not which usually turn out to be not .
6. Yandex sometimes work but not always .
In short : The current search quality is terrible and finding smallweb ,forums and blogs are even more difficult .
[0] https://detailed.com/google-control/
[1] https://search.marginalia.nu/
[2] https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...
That google-control article shines a big light on the problem. If all the companies are own by the same parent, they'll naturally follow the same strategy to maximise clicks.
Have I finally found the reason this why all recipe sites operate the same dysfunctional way??
Thanks for the response! I'm going to try some of your workarounds, particularly the search results date.
It would be cool to have a search engine that folks specifically on public forum results.