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Comment by chinchilla2020

2 years ago

This is great. Google is no longer a useful search site.

Examples: * too much emphasis on awful video spam * SEO and spam has floated to the top * imprecision in search

I recently searched for some simple instructions for jumping a car battery, and it was hard to find a decent website.

Try searching for a simple recipe for cookies on google and you will get directed to the most awful blogs where the information you are searching for is hard to find.

There should be a ranking bonus for simplistic sites. A massive bonus for simple explanations given on a forum or stackoverflow... organic content that is useful and not regurgitated into a blog.

I have a pretty large personal blocklist for Google, search is pretty usable for me now.