Ask HN: How do you use Google nowadays to avoid blogspam?

1 points by int_x 5 years ago | 2 comments

Every time I search for something I almost exclusively get blogposts as results. Happens on DDG as well

I miss when search engines were actually good. Can't find anything worth something now unless I specify domain.

topicseed 5 years ago |

Google's getting better at removing spam from SERPS but definitely tougher at removing blog spam. Mostly because blogs are getting better at showing the same information from the competition in yet a slightly different way.

I append Reddit or use various operators (allintitle). The title of each result also helps me see and filter out over-optimized pages...

10000truths 5 years ago |

In my experience, appending "site:reddit.com" to the search terms almost invariably gets me better results.