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Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies"

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212 points pseudolus | 3 comments | 20 Nov 24 21:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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Ancalagon ◴[20 Nov 24 22:25 UTC] No.42198762[source]▶
Hopefully this is a step in the right direction. Google's search results have gotten so bad - seems like even some of the simplest searches are just packed with AI generated and SEO garbage. I don't even want SearchGPT do take over the search market space because I'm almost sure it will still be garbage. Just bring back the google from 5-10 years ago please :(.
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1. 1vuio0pswjnm7 ◴[21 Nov 24 00:04 UTC] No.42199535[source]▶
I still search Google and other search engines from the command line. There is no "AI" garbage in the results. The way HN commenters refer to Google search in this thread, one might conclude it is not possible anymore to search the web without a popular browser running Javascript (which is a prerequisite for this "AI" stuff). That conclusion would be incorrect. It is still possible; I am still doing it every day.
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2. chipsrafferty ◴[21 Nov 24 00:33 UTC] No.42199747[source]▶
How do you do that?
3. 1vuio0pswjnm7 ◴[21 Nov 24 03:03 UTC] No.42200680[source]▶
This is how I do it

1. Make HTTP

2. Send HTTP via TCP

3. Perform text processing on the response body (I create own SERP instead of using Google's)

Personally, I use multiple programs, some I wrote myself in C, to perform these individual steps, connected by UNIX pipes and the shortest, simplest possible Bourne shell scripting

However there are countless ways to perform these steps in wide variety of programming languages; there is no need for UNIX or shell scripting, it is purely personal preference