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0 pointstomp4y ago0 comments

I’m dying to have that feature again.

I just want to downvote/remove W3Cschools and upvote MDN.

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What's your beef with W3schools? IMO the code examples work, and the explanations are relatively short and to the point. MDN is harder to read for new learners as everything is documented like an API.

mikestew4y ago

What's your beef with W3schools?

Probably a ten-year-old beef. W3Schools used to spam search results with questionable-at-best information. I forget whether they got bought, or just cleaned up their act, but the current version is vastly improved over what it was. Still, I have muscle memory that hesitates to click one of their links despite knowing that W3Schools sucks much, much less than they used to.

abhijat4y ago

Yes, I want to remove quora from my results. I vaguely remember you could block websites forever in google a long time ago, but I may be misremembering it.

actuator4y ago

Well, this still works.

`my_search_phrase -quora.com`

forgotpwd164y ago

W3Schools is also nice because, though MDN are more comprehensive and have a higher quality appearance, their examples are more on point and they've a playground functionality where you can test any of them on an online editor with a complete code rather than just change the property on a limited demo.

bronson4y ago

You'd probably also downvote all the pay-for-placement results on Google's search page now. That would lead to some difficult questions.

actuator4y ago

You mean ads? I don't think search results themselves are altered based on payments.

CRConrad4y ago

Depends. We have trained ourselves to be blind to garish pictures top and bottom, or over to the side... But when the top item in the search results column proper is distinguished from the others only by a laconic "sponsored result" label below it, is that perceived as what we usually call "an ad"? I'd say it's pretty reasonable to call that "pay for placement".

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rchaud4y ago

mikestew4y ago

What's your beef with W3schools?

abhijat4y ago

Yes, I want to remove quora from my results. I vaguely remember you could block websites forever in google a long time ago, but I may be misremembering it.

actuator4y ago

Well, this still works.

`my_search_phrase -quora.com`

forgotpwd164y ago

bronson4y ago

You'd probably also downvote all the pay-for-placement results on Google's search page now. That would lead to some difficult questions.

actuator4y ago

You mean ads? I don't think search results themselves are altered based on payments.

CRConrad4y ago

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