It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust amazon and yelp reviews. Now searches have been completely taken over by Forbes top 10 lists, random affiliate link click through aggregators that copy and paste each others work, review factories that will kill your competitors and boost your product stars, ect… It seems like the internet has gotten soooo much harder to use, just because you have to wade through all the bullshit. It’s no wonder people switch to reddit and lemmy style sites, in a way it mirrors a little what kind of information you used to be able to garner from the internet in it’s early days. What do people do these days to find genuine information about products or services?
On programming topics, your top search results will be stack overflow followed github followed by sites that scrape stack overflow and then the sites that scrape github. It’s great.
Ayo how do I automatically remove those scrapers from search results? I know I could manually exclude them all in the query, but that’s tedious
Free ublacklist extension and list you can find on Github or Gitlab with updated scraping sites you can either “subscribe” the extension to or copy and paste manually in one go.
There are some good working add-ons for browsers that do that for you. our only need to manage the list and the add-ons do the rest.
I e.g. block all the crap shops…
With some experience in development you some day know the sites that have good content for specific topics but yeah its hard…