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Asahi Linux news cycles have made it blatantly clear just how *bad* Google search quality is these days. Every time Phoronix/El Reg/co put out an article, the SERPs are filled with *dozens* of automated copycat/synonym-replacer sites, ranking higher than other real articles.

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Hector Martin

@marcan42

Aug 2

Right *now*, for me, organic result #4 for "torvalds asahi" is a ripoff of the El Reg article with the text auto-edited. It's nuts. Are they even trying?

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Hector Martin

@marcan42

Aug 2

... OMG. I just tried Bing. They suck at deduping (I get the same article like 4 times), but I had to go to page 6 to find one of the blatant autospam sites, and real articles were a lot more visible. WTF. ... am I switching to Bing?!

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Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

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@marcan42

Bing has a dramatically smaller web crawling database. It's not that they're better at avoiding manipulation but that they see a tiny fraction of pages. Check the backlink count in Google Webmaster Tools vs. Bing Webmaster Tools.

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ahrefs.com launched a search engine (yep.com) with their huge crawling database but their search algorithm is terrible so it's not very useful beyond searching a db almost as large as Google's but with different coverage to find obscure things.

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