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0 pointsiLoveOncall1y ago0 comments

Or maybe I'm better at selecting the right keywords? Or maybe I search like a real person and not like a researcher that is only talking about product reviews?

> They found that, overall, "higher-ranked pages are on average more optimized, more monetized with affiliate marketing, and they show signs of lower text quality.

Besides "signs of lower text quality", this doesn't in fact say much about the quality of the results at all. Seems like their research is pretty low quality too.

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troupo1y ago

I am a real person, and sponsored links will often span the entire results page with relevant links being 4th-6th.

mistercheph1y ago

LOL, gotta love "just get better at picking search keywords bro..." as the retort in defense of google's trash results.

Here's an easy one for you: Try googling "div" after you scroll past the ads, AI overview, wikipedia summary, and maps results, and finally get to the first result it's.... w3schools, which nobody has ever wanted to be the result of their search query ever.

Kagi's first result is for the DIV ticker, and there is legitimate ambiguity in the search term, and the second result is for MDN.

Kagi can't guess perfectly what I'm searching for, but it won't triple down on a potentially bad guess like google does (imagine you are looking for the div ticker, search, and have to scoff and add another keyword) and it won't ever return links to universally despised trash websites that are actually just abstract financial instruments to perform arbitrage between cost of SEO and adsense revenue.

sundarurfriend1y ago

> w3schools, which nobody has ever wanted to be the result of their search query ever.

I think you're living in the past. The w3schools of today isn't the w3schools from 10 years ago. For precision and detailed info I still go to MDN, but for a good comprehensive overview of the tag/property/what-have-you, w3schools is really good.

iLoveOncallOP1y ago

https://i.imgur.com/RxSYGIe.png

What's wrong with w3schools being the first result? It's not the best resource ever for sure, but it's not a spam website either.

You can't see everything in my screenshot, but the results in order are:

1. w3schools 2. Mozilla's documentation 3. The Cambridge dictionary 4. Some Wikipedia page about what the term is in the context of mythology 5. More websites about the HTML term

I don't see ANYTHING that isn't what someone would expect here, or someone should consider spam or low quality.

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