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The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

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1743 points caspii | 1 comments | 07 Jun 21 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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ilamont ◴[07 Jun 21 22:47 UTC] No.27428272[source]▶
Same story for various Wordpress plugins and widgety things that live in site footers.

Google has turned into a cesspool. Half the time I find myself having to do ridiculous search contortions to get somewhat useful results - appending site: .edu or .gov to search strings, searching by time periods to eliminate new "articles" that have been SEOed to the hilt, or taking out yelp and other chronic abusers that hijack local business results.

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aarchi ◴[07 Jun 21 23:31 UTC] No.27428717[source]▶
Anecdotally DuckDuckGo seems to have fewer sponsored sites than Google. DDG also makes it easy to block low-quality sites because it adds a data-domain attribute to the root of every search result. I recently started this mini uBlock Origin filter list for that (suggestions welcome!):

    ! Hide low-quality results on DuckDuckGo
    duckduckgo.com##[data-domain="w3schools.com"]
    duckduckgo.com##[data-domain$=".w3schools.com"]
    duckduckgo.com##[data-domain="w3schools.in"]
    duckduckgo.com##[data-domain$=".w3schools.in"]
    duckduckgo.com##[data-domain="download.cnet.com"]
    !! Stack Exchange mirrors
    duckduckgo.com##[data-domain="exceptionshub.com"]
    duckduckgo.com##[data-domain="intellipaat.com"]
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1. raverbashing ◴[08 Jun 21 07:42 UTC] No.27431653[source]▶
Great idea. Though I've noticed DDG promotes "blogspam" articles more often than the authoritative sources.

Let's say, if I search for a python builtin library, I want to go to the python website, not some "Python 101" blog post about it.