<story><title>Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?</title><text>Whenever i am trying to google a code issue i have, there is countless low quality sites just showing SO threads with no added value whatsoever.
It is so annoying it actually drives me mad.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what&amp;#x27;s up with that?&lt;p&gt;I am really disappointed because the guys creating these sites (i guess for some kind of monetization) must have some relation to coding. But i feel this is an attack against all of us. Every programmer should be grateful for the opportunity to find good quality content quickly. Now my search results are flooded with copy &amp;amp; paste from SO. 
They are killing that.&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one experiencing this or being that annoyed by it?&lt;p&gt;P.S: I don&amp;#x27;t name URLs because if you don&amp;#x27;t know what I am talking about already, you probably don&amp;#x27;t have that issue.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rastonbury</author><text>Somewhat tangential but I believe Google Search is going downhill, they seem to be losing the content junk spam SEO fight. Recently, I&amp;#x27;ve had to append wiki&amp;#x2F;reddit&amp;#x2F;hn to queries I search for because everything near the top is shallow copied content marketing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BLanen</author><text>They seem to keep giving more and more confidence in their language semantic ai.&lt;p&gt;Quoted words in the search should return only pages with that actually on the page. That used to work. Now it often shows pages that don&amp;#x27;t contain it all, not in the search results page itself, nor on the page when you go there. So you&amp;#x27;d think it just ignored the quoted text and gave me results without it instead, right? Wrong. Removing the quoted text to either unquoted text or removing it entirely both result in different results. So it DOES process the quotes SOMEHOW. But it&amp;#x27;s not a clear RULE because probably it&amp;#x27;s also just processed as an input to the semantics engine. Just tell me you don&amp;#x27;t have any pages with the text instead, please. Which it actually also some sometimes...&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s an unfixable mess. And I don&amp;#x27;t think this can be turned back. Building a competitor costs hundreds of billions. A competitor will likely end up taking the same approach anyway.&lt;p&gt;I just wanted a list of google&amp;#x27;s big search engine updates but even searching this I get SEO-d blogspam ABOUT THE SEO IMPACT OF THE UPDATES.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?</title><text>Whenever i am trying to google a code issue i have, there is countless low quality sites just showing SO threads with no added value whatsoever.
It is so annoying it actually drives me mad.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone know what&amp;#x27;s up with that?&lt;p&gt;I am really disappointed because the guys creating these sites (i guess for some kind of monetization) must have some relation to coding. But i feel this is an attack against all of us. Every programmer should be grateful for the opportunity to find good quality content quickly. Now my search results are flooded with copy &amp;amp; paste from SO. 
They are killing that.&lt;p&gt;Am I the only one experiencing this or being that annoyed by it?&lt;p&gt;P.S: I don&amp;#x27;t name URLs because if you don&amp;#x27;t know what I am talking about already, you probably don&amp;#x27;t have that issue.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Rastonbury</author><text>Somewhat tangential but I believe Google Search is going downhill, they seem to be losing the content junk spam SEO fight. Recently, I&amp;#x27;ve had to append wiki&amp;#x2F;reddit&amp;#x2F;hn to queries I search for because everything near the top is shallow copied content marketing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevesimmons</author><text>&amp;gt; they seem to be losing the content junk spam SEO fight&lt;p&gt;Google clearly isn&amp;#x27;t even trying.&lt;p&gt;So many of these sites are polluting search results for months. It isn&amp;#x27;t a case of sites that pop up for a few hours until Google notices and blacklists them.&lt;p&gt;Google Search has gone so far downhill. I&amp;#x27;m not sure what they&amp;#x27;re optimising for. Long-term irrelevance, it seems.</text></comment>