I keep trying to find things like “making waffles from sour dough discard” and all the sites are the same: long meandering paragraphs full of links to other things on the site with dubious instructions.
Considering at this point I can pretty much identify the type of site by looking at it; are there good extensions or search engines which might remove them from search results?
Update: for now it seems duck duck go’s date range filter is kinda a magic bullet for this type of thing. Set the range between 2010 and 2020 and the top results for a lot of temporally agnostic searches.
I’ve switched to presearch.com long ago. No more tracking.
This is one of the neater concepts for blockchain I’ve seen, though the “PRE” coin is giving me very serious pause… I mean, I guess they have to make money, but still.
EDIT: I take this back. It’s a plan for a neat concept that’s not implemented yet… Even though the crypto token is.
The UI is pretty nice though.
Just ignore that and don’t make a wallet? I don’t think they’re making much money from the coin. Main revenu stream is the ads, which since recently got sneaked into the search results. But you’ll get used to that quickly. Its search results are far better than the Duck’s… :)
It seems like it’s just a Google search fetcher now. I did a couple of searches side by side (both extremely niche, and popular SEO tests) and got almost identical results, down to the exact same ordering and forum posts, minus the YouTube and ad spam and such on Google.
That’s… fine I guess? But it’s nothing like what they advertise, and also something many services provide without muddying it.
I don’t think you’re going back far enough. As others have pointed out, the problem existed due to seo stuff long before any LLM would see common usage, even in advertising rat races. Copy-pasted-extended descriptions became a problem around 2015, in my filtering journey. That’s where I see real blogs (and just simple websites) start to be the majority of search results.