Comment by ChrisArchitect
2 years ago
Blah blah blah. Could you lay this article out any worse? What are the queries you used to test? I want to try them too. Buried in here somewhere.
Using an adblocker is not expert anything.
That you've defined your own opinion for what some of the results should be blows the thing up.
Searching youtube downloader, many people would be fine with some of the ad covered but totally functional sites that pop up on Google. I use some of them every day for quick conversion tasks. I don't want any youtube-dl result. The average users don't either.
Download firefox? What's that? All the top links are fine? No one's looking at the 7th listing for a simple query to download a program.
Why do wider tires have better grip? .. what, sites like roadandtrack, prioritytire, reddit, some physics and stackexchange sites aren't good enough? they are.
The Vancouver snow report one also. Lots of major news sites. Some weathernetwork and almanacs. All totally acceptable results for a sort of variable question.
blah blah this is just a hate on for Google and a HN/nerd view of the world that the average user is nowhere near living in.
> Download firefox? What's that? All the top links are fine? No one's looking at the 7th listing for a simple query to download a program.
They are if the first six results are SEO bullshit. Which is the de-facto state of affairs for Google today: advertising traipsing around as search.
heh, they're not. They're all variations of mozilla download pages and site posts.
For whatever it's worth, I think your comment would be a whole lot more convincing without its first and last lines, which had the effect of making you sound (at least to me) like you're shallowly dismissing the article.
Which web site did you use to successfully download a youtube video, and which youtube video did you download?
Completely agree. I personally thought searching "Vancouver snow report" to be extremely strange. Just search zip code or city name and weather. Two words. That's all you need to get results. What the hell is snow report? Do you even think you can trust weather reports 10+ days out?
Whole article is rambling and silly and assuming.
Well, "weather" is "it's snowing", "snow report" is "amount and quality of snow", I guess. Relevant for skiing and/or driving safely.
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