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marcinzm ◴[12 Oct 23 17:28 UTC] No.37860179[source]▶
>The hell? But people seem to think that Home Assistant is good. (Something about subscription fees and invasive apps and forced obsolescence?) So you search for “how to get a Home Assistant”. This reveals a recursive landscape of terror:

Google "how to install home assistant" which leads to:

>https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/

>If you are unsure of what to choose, follow the Raspberry Pi guide to install Home Assistant Operating System.

This leads to:

>https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/raspberrypi

This has a nice visual guide that requires you to know how to buy a raspberry pi, how to plug in a raspberry p, how to plug in an sd card (twice), and how to navigate to a url.

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chrisw957 ◴[12 Oct 23 17:55 UTC] No.37860534[source]▶
I googled "how to install home assistant", and the links you point to above don't appear to be anywhere on the first page of results.

The second link is this one: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/guide-how-to-install-h...

But the linked page is pretty complex.

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thethirdone ◴[12 Oct 23 18:14 UTC] No.37860798[source]▶
That result does not show up for me when I google it and the other one is the top result for me.

If someone can come up with a reason why top results aren't even present on others' page 1, I would be very interested.

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SAI_Peregrinus ◴[12 Oct 23 18:37 UTC] No.37861125{3}[source]▶
Google "personalizes" search results.
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thethirdone ◴[12 Oct 23 19:30 UTC] No.37861967{4}[source]▶
This is not an explanation. I am aware the search results can be different to different people and based on demographic information.

My specific question is why would a top result not even end up on the first page. This requires a more significant explanation than "its possible".

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1. sethammons ◴[13 Oct 23 09:54 UTC] No.37868781{5}[source]▶
> I am aware the search results can be different to different people and based on demographic information.

You answered yourself. If you are are searching zoos and cute animals more often than programming stuff, "python egg" will return dramatically different results. This is not a theoretic possibility, it is the way google works (which I think is unfortunate).