Comment by gomox | Hacker News Reader

Comment by gomox | Hacker News Reader

The best part of this is that it is concrete evidence of Google Search result quality decay. The screenshot of the search in the article shows a result from a Blogspot blog called "Frankie's Joint".

If you do today the exact same search that the OP does on his screenshot, that result does not show up. ALL the results I get are either a reference to this Hacker News post, or computer generated pages. A short 2 pages worth of useless computer generated content, including binary analysis pages and alternative frontends to the HN post.

The original article on Frankie's Joint still exists, here it is: https://frankiesjoint.blogspot.com/2014/08/nein-doktor-nein....

Has anyone attempted to create a "search engine benchmark" of, say, oddly specific phrases that almost certainly need to return a certain set of pages as the top result? This could quantify the loss in quality we keep talking about.

If the full list were public then the results could of course be gamed, but if only a sample were public and the full set were private then it would probably provide a useful metric (and would be able to measure attempted gaming by the score on the public and private datasets).

Google gave up on search though right? Like, I assume they’ve just abandoned it, maybe as recently as 2 or 3 years ago. Can anyone prove that they haven’t?

I tried googling for evidence of that, but couldn't find anything. :)

The Dunk Web, only visible by archaeological reconstruction from photos of past Google searches.

I'm curious if they explicitly excluded their blog from Google search results, they don't seem to have the highest opinion of Google from various posts.

Doesn't look like it. I see 3 pages from the blog when I search site:frankiesjoint.blogspot.com . None of them are the post about ether-rot-mutex .

Ah, good point - and would seem unlikely they removed most pages except those.

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