[TaylorAlexander]

I also noticed recently that if you search for problems using google cloud stuff (app engine in my case) on google, the full first page of results are the documentation for the product. What I wanted was stack overflow posts, or angry forum posts where other users had the same questions. Or somebody’s personal blog or GitHub gist where they talk about what to do. If I want all results from the documentation I can go to the documentation and search from there! If I used google to search for information on C# programming they wouldn’t return a page of 100% MSDN results, so I don’t see why they do for app engine.

Not strictly related to your comment, but similarly frustrated.

[nitrogen]

Interesting; I usually prefer to see documentation search results instead of "me too" Q&A posts where nobody's solved the problem in 8 years. Maybe a good mix of first-party and third-party sources would be ideal for the first results page; definitely not an entire page of just original documentation.

[Izkata]

This one particular thing is easy enough to work around, if the results you don't want are all from the same domain/path:

    -site:cloud.google.com/storage/docs/