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by mrkramer 1386 days ago
Google is no longer place where do you go to find useful information and good websites. First page of Google Search results is always a mix of popular websites like WSJ, NYT, BBC, Guardian, Reuters, Forbes, Bloomberg or any other famous and popular site like for example Reddit and other part of the mix are some low quality, spammy, copy-paste content random sites that are of no real use. Google prefers popular information instead of useful information and on top of that nobody really knows how exactly Google's ranking algorithms work not even Google's engineers but general rule is like I said popular content must be on the first page.

One thing I like about Google tho is their Knowledge Graph[0] because I can type keywords like time, temperature or convert in the search box and Google will do this small task for me. I see it as a set of little web apps on top of Google which help us users to automate our tasks.

[0] https://support.google.com/knowledgepanel/answer/9787176?hl=...