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by throw8383833jj 1691 days ago
the problem is Search engines suck really really badly at finding good sites. I think the war between SEO spammers and search engines has been won by the SEO spammers. And the search engine filters are now so exclusive that 99% of the good content gets filtered out. this has been a growing problem over the last 15 years but it's getting so bad that even technical searches are starting to suck.

Just as an example: in the last few days all i wanted to find was a single Dockerfile setup that worked out of the box. and nearly every single example I could find in the top 20 results was broken.

I mean, try looking up subjects that many people have written about. For example: "Why does climate change matter?" Nearly every single top 20 search result sucks really bad with barely 3 to 5 paragraphs not even going into depth. We know for a fact there are hundreds of extremely in-depth articles that cover this subject with great depth and examples, and explanations.