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It would be great to have Google Search product that only searches for blogs as they usually have more in-depth knowledge than what you can find in other mediums (other than books or actual courses but they usually suffer from having too much water or including things that aren't that relevant for my search).

I am not sure if there is such already but it would definitely be more useful nowadays when Google Search top results are just SEO-spam or ads.

EDIT: I just got a genuine "oh wait..." moment. There indeed was a Google Blog Search product and, of course, it was killed ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Blog_Search )

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You can try Marginalia Search for this use case: https://search.marginalia.nu/

what is it about the name or URL that weirds me out? I can't tell if it is "marginal" in the name, or the .nu

Dunno, maybe you were a scribe in a previous life and died in a freak marginalia-doodling accident.

How could you reliably filter out seo spam blogs though?

Asking the real questions. If some magic could make a search engine that ignored all SEO spam, life would be better. I find it hard to believe google themselves are having such a hard time with the obvious cloned copies of other sites/content that now own most page 1 results. But they seem to be.

If Google just blacklisted the top 50 or whatever SEO spam programming pages it would probably remove 99% of the spam on programming queries.

I have tried with the Firefox addon and it gets better quick.

It is almost always the same sites.

And building up page rank takes time so it is a winning battle ... but hey! Google drives no hands!

What magical FFox addon you're talking about?

I think it is called uBlacklist (not the same guy as uBlock). I don't have my computer with me so can't check.

Incentivize SEO for fine granularity (punish blogs that spam too many common keywords) and provide more filtering tools to users.

Former is likely already done for many popular platforms along with many other tricks so you would want to have experienced people for that part.

For filtering tools a good one would be adding a way to have filter lists against spammers and generally just more options to how you want to refine your search. I get that Google Search allows you to type some special keywords but I'd rather it be more user-friendly.

The more something looks like GPT the lower it should be ranked. GPT can make that assessment for you in fact.

I'm not trusting an AI to vet my information stream.

“AI” is already vetting your information stream.

maybe for the collective-you. It's too bad there isn't a content-engine driven by one of these when you can describe an emotional outcome and it provide the content to get you there. However, if it could do that, it'd already have solved factoring and we're in deep trouble anyway.

Then it just becomes a cat-and-mouse game for someone to make a tool that "de-GPTs the copy" and then so on and so on.

Man alive, I just got a Technorati flashback.

Remember Technorati tags? If you were at all vaguely technical, you HAD to add Technorati tags to your blog, so the Technorati search would find and classify your blog.

The Future Was Then!

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