dmi 💽 Mar 14
judging online information quality based on site where it appeared: a comprehensive guide

- "How To (...)" in the title, cookie banners, lots of side-information written in a way that wastes your time: SEO slop, don't bother. You might as well make a wild guess, same likelyhood it'll be correct

- official docs for $x, autogenerated by a rube-goldberg machine and automagically pushed into whatever-pages by a fully-skidoodled, post-quantum CI pipeline: describes everything, except the exact fact you're looking for.

- no HTTPS, tilde in the name, DNS with 4+ dots, likely hosted on some dusty uni server, white background with absolutely no CSS: one of the best resources on the subject. you question how it's even still online

- site titled "Garry's blog", default wordpress favicon, last update either previous month or 12 years ago: golden. crystal-clear exposition, good examples and screenshots framed so well you don't even need arrows pointing places. likely used as a cheat-sheet daily by everyone in the community
Show threadhug0
@domi Would be fun to have some sort of metric for this that weights into the search results.
Mar 14 at 10:36amWeb
Show threaddmi 💽 Mar 14
@hugo if i ever end up making a search engine, something i don’t wish upon myself,
Show threadOssie Mar 14
@hugo @domi https://marginalia-search.com/ is one I use sometimes that upweights raw HTML pages! Good for finding this sort of thing.
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Show threadbeaiouns Mar 14
@spacefinner this is so cool!
Show threadLoohoosaherMar 14
@hugo I want to say get people to do it but I think I would just end up reinventing SEO but make it DIY
Show threadhacknorris4d ago
@hwll @hugo even ads may be OK in these times tbh… https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/115415993694346804
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Show threadAndrewMar 15
@hugo @domi The personal blogs with the good content are much less likely to have ads on them, so it wouldn't surprise me if some search engines reduced the ranking.