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Displeased Moo Cow posted:isn’t ddg just rebadged bing!? sort of? better privacy. and they incorporate instant answers like google does as well as work with other kbs, i think? anyway if they are useable at all they're worth supporting for the sole reason of not being google tbqh imo Head Bee Guy posted:what are the good websites then? so i can save them to return to later. tbh i started using rss again
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upon further reflection, i feel like evertyhing is just awful these days, op.
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Mar 11, 2021 06:10
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not the awful.app though
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if you put on the tv you can get some insurance commercials which are pretty funny, op
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Achmed Jones posted:same. i am also sick of sites that are either machine generated or written by some content farm employee that doesn't understand the language and takes 500 words to say a ten word sentence. as far as i can tell, basically all sites purporting to be about a general topic (dog training, hair care, whatever) are this way why is google so bad at punishing blatant seo? in this post I will reveal why google is bad at punishing blatant seo we’ve all been there. you search for a thing on google and all the hits seem to be blatant seo sites that waffle on endlessly about your search keywords. but what not many people know is that this is a result of google being bad at punishing blatant seo. why is that? the reason may surprise you first let’s answer the most fundamental question: what is search?
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Mar 11, 2021 10:28
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Soricidus posted:why is google so bad at punishing blatant seo? it's because their engineers are dumb and overpaid op. I'll continue to believe this until they fix it.
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Mar 11, 2021 11:29
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as mentioned it’s because their metric of user on site, user clicking ad, etc, hasn’t gone down. besides what are you going to use, something else (that is an example google thought not my own tyvm)
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pointsofdata posted:it's because their engineers are dumb and overpaid op. I'll continue to believe this until they fix it. google's engineers are so bad that they can't maintain any of their existing products, that's why they cancel things so often, easier than supporting them for more than six months
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Do people actually use bing for real life searching? I have a friend who works on bing search stuff and he mentioned that the majority of bing usage is for porn.
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Mar 11, 2021 17:56
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I use bing a fair amount because it is the default search engine on the world's most advanced web browser, microsoft chedge
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Mar 11, 2021 18:37
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I have a friend who insists Bing is better for image search. But goddamn is it annoying trying to find information, but the only thing google serves you is how to buy something tangentially related. Anyone figure out how to find information? About like products and poo poo?
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Mar 11, 2021 18:39
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why not use the highly trustworthy product reviews on the website you're shopping from?
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Mar 11, 2021 20:39
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Soricidus posted:why is google so bad at punishing blatant seo? its because they dont care op if you want to beat out toptech.biz’s list of the top 17 butt toucher apps you are welcome to bid for adwords to go on top
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Mar 11, 2021 20:55
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how can anyone work in seo i would hate myself i guess if you have no other job prospects and need to put food on the table, but otherwise...
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Mar 11, 2021 20:57
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you're not getting 'food' on the table with seo, you're getting a single origin grass fed steak the money is flyin' there
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Mar 11, 2021 21:01
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university of phoenix certificate in SEO
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Mar 11, 2021 23:50
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i use startpage.com and when once in a while i end up on google.com im startled how loving awful it is to use its bad
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ideology aside it had a pretty decent user interface even like 5 years ago? now its just a very busy (busier) mess trying to do ten things at the same time
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i don't event want to know what it'd look like if i turned off adblock christ
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Mar 12, 2021 01:25
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Head Bee Guy posted:what are the good websites then? so i can save them to return to later. the uninstall wizard
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Mar 12, 2021 03:13
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mostly if im looking for something i just ask my online pals and someone usually has it bookmarked
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Mar 12, 2021 03:54
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Even searching in the Chrome address bar for previous sites sucks rear end. I visit my electric company's website once a month and no matter what Chrome will never show it to me as I am typing the site out. It does that to me with sites I visit multiple times per week ffs. Meanwhile a website I visited once fourteen years ago will auto populate in Firefox just fine
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Mar 12, 2021 06:59
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yes op that's why I use duck duck go
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Mar 12, 2021 07:05
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tbh the hardest goog product to dump has been maps. there's somehow no viable alternatives other than pulling out my phone and using apple maps and YouTube I guess but that's kinda different
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Mar 12, 2021 07:12
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before i had anything approaching a reasonable data allowance (i had 150mb per month in 2016) I used to draw a map with directions if I needed to get somewhere. I couldn't use my phone off WiFi or id blow the data allowance instantly
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Mar 12, 2021 09:28
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Bloody posted:apple maps lol
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Mar 12, 2021 09:41
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lol all you want but they’ve dumped a poo poo load of cash into improving it. i use it as much as possible these days and rarely have an issue with it. i don’t even have it on my phone. this is a relatively populated area tho. the mac application is good too but hard to break the muscle memory of browsering over to google
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mediaphage posted:lol all you want but they’ve dumped a poo poo load of cash into improving it. i use it as much as possible these days and rarely have an issue with it. i don’t even have it on my phone. this is a relatively populated area tho. i just searched for the exact name, in chinese, of a local japanese restaurant in my neighborhood. apple maps helpfully zoomed me over to a mountain with a different name that’s a homonym of the restaurant i searched, but very clearly not the same name or chinese characters. the mountain is 150km away and in a different city, so it updated my search area to this new city until i manually pulled it back to my location
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if there's one benefit to living in the bay area, it's that apple maps actually works really well here for some mysterious reason. so odd.
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fart simpson posted:i just searched for the exact name, in chinese, of a local japanese restaurant in my neighborhood. apple maps helpfully zoomed me over to a mountain with a different name that’s a homonym of the restaurant i searched, but very clearly not the same name or chinese characters. the mountain is 150km away and in a different city, so it updated my search area to this new city until i manually pulled it back to my location i freely admit my position is biased since i only have to search for english and french i guess?
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it probably works better outside china
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fart simpson posted:i just searched for the exact name, in chinese, of a local japanese restaurant in my neighborhood. apple maps helpfully zoomed me over to a mountain with a different name that’s a homonym of the restaurant i searched, but very clearly not the same name or chinese characters. the mountain is 150km away and in a different city, so it updated my search area to this new city until i manually pulled it back to my location apple just rolling over and giving in to anti-japanese sentiments eh god google maps sucks rear end these days tho. no gently caress you I don’t want to ~explore the neighborhood~ I want to see a loving map without your lovely cruft covering half the screen
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Even searching in the Chrome address bar for previous sites sucks rear end. I visit my electric company's website once a month and no matter what Chrome will never show it to me as I am typing the site out. It does that to me with sites I visit multiple times per week ffs. google is an advertising company and forcing you to search for everything is one way they show you more ads don't use a web browser made by an advertising company Soricidus posted:god google maps sucks rear end these days tho. no gently caress you I don’t want to ~explore the neighborhood~ I want to see a loving map without your lovely cruft covering half the screen my "favorite" thing is all the ads they show in the map itself, like special pins on dunkin donuts or whoever else is shoveling millions of dollars into google's coffers
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Soricidus posted:god google maps sucks rear end these days tho. no gently caress you I don’t want to ~explore the neighborhood~ I want to see a loving map without your lovely cruft covering half the screen yeah gently caress this poo poo
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fart simpson posted:it probably works better outside china are there any china-based map services in wide use? i'd be surprised if it'd be too difficult to do better maps of china than some bay-area westerners
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carry on then posted:are there any china-based map services in wide use? i'd be surprised if it'd be too difficult to do better maps of china than some bay-area westerners gotta assume baidu has a map app?
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HappyHippo posted:google+ was about the point when i realized that google the company sucks agreed. that was the moment i realized they could arbitrarily decide to start loving with me and all interactions with them started with defensive thinking first and foremost. same thing happened to me with facebook in the very early days when they would add new privacy features that superceded older ones defaulting to settings which would override your previous choices. i deleted my account a few years after that
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Soricidus posted:why is google so bad at punishing blatant seo? lol
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Bloody posted:tbh the hardest goog product to dump has been maps. there's somehow no viable alternatives other than pulling out my phone and using apple maps yeah ddg/bing maps is dogshit
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