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The Fall of Stack Overflow (programming.dev)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/programming@programming.dev
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Stack Overflow has seen a substantial decline in traffic over the last year that appears to be accelerating. https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overflow

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

That's crazy. Google/DDG bloat from SEO websites had already driven me out a while ago, so I hadn't noticed. I've been using Kagi for a few months now, and I find I can trust my search results again. Being able to permanently downgrade or even block a given website is an awesome feature, I would recommend it just for that.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Hmm, not really used to the idea of paying for search, but I understand.

    Is it good at filtering AI generated sites and sites that are clearly copy pasted. Or do you kind of have to identify that yourself and manually block?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    There's no specific AI detection at the moment, as far as I can tell. But it has "listicle" detection. If you ask "best lawn mower", all these "the 5 best lawn mowers of 2023" websites with affiliated Amazon links get pooled into a compact Listicle section, that you can just scroll past and ignore.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    I think it's worth testing it with the free 100 searches. All you need is an email address (no credit card unless you're actually subscribing). I've only been using it a few days but I don't think it filters out AI generated sites. But you can set a ranking by site (block, lower, normal, raise, pin) so you can make stack overflow be priorised and block quora.

    They have a ranking board of top sites in each category so you can go through it and set the rank of a bunch of sites upfront.

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