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by thekyle 2228 days ago
There is Million Short which allows you to search without the top 100, 1k, 10k, 100k, or 1m sites. Personally what I'd like to see is a search engine that only indexes webpages without ads since that should eliminate lots of the SEOd garbage. It would also be nice to use the text to code ratio to derank JS heavy sites.

https://millionshort.com/
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b0ner_t0ner 2228 days ago
> like to see is a search engine that only indexes webpages without ads since that should eliminate lots of the SEOd garbage

Not just ads, but also ranked by the number of third-party cookies/tracking scripts a site has.

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joshspankit 2228 days ago
And blacklist anything with those outbrain blocks. “One weird trick to _____.”

Very surprised where I see those these days, and they always make me run away.

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dorkwood 2227 days ago
The fact that news websites happily adopted those is disgusting. They're literally tricking people into thinking it's news content.
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icedistilled 2227 days ago
And they also, for the longest time, strongly turned me off paying for any news sites. The more they use scummy ads that turn people off, the more they need ad revenue.

That's a nice negative feedback loop or catch-22

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