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Comment by yegle | Hacker News Reader

Now we just need Google to give websites like w3cschools and geeksforgeeks a lower rank, and give python.org, go.dev, MDN, w3.org higher rank.

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I was recently surprised how bad Google results had gotten. Way back when I used Python heavily a google search would return results from python.org. When my kids were learning python for uni I told them the python online docs were great, but my daughter disagreed. I asked her to show me what she meant and she showed me her google search - the first page of links contained no hits for python.org results. She thought python online docs were crap like geeksforgeeks. It was one of those moments when you realize the world has changed around you since the last time you looked.

I've always been a critic of the algorithm over curation for search. Cheap low effort content has always been orders of magnitude easier to generate than real quality content. The only way to prevent declines of the real content is to put a wall(curation) around serious information providers so they cannot be gamified out of the way by bad actors.

Embracing Googles "battle it out" style of search results has been a net harm to the quality of searching for information.

If the world stuck with the slower but ultimately finite method of curating quality providers we would have an amazing set of resources instead of spam blogs.

I actually love w3schools as a quick reference or to use their sandbox to test something out

At least with Kagi you can manually adjust the ranking of certain domains

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