• riot@fedia.io
    52·
    14 days ago

    Well, this explains the experience I had with the poe2 wiki 2 months ago. I could only find the poe1 wiki and thought it was so damn weird that there wasn’t one for the sequel. Then a week or so later, a reddit thread had a comment to the poe2 wiki, and I was so confused why it hadn’t shown up, when I specifically searched for it. smh. Glad to have that mystery solved!

  • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
    33·
    14 days ago

    Yeah, this has been for a while now.

    When Digital Extremes made and hosted their own wiki for Warframe instead of the fandom one, you had to directly search the main page of their wiki from Google instead of just searching.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      151·
      14 days ago

      it didn’t take long for search engines, including google, to pick up wiki.warframe.com though, as it was just a sub off an existing and long-standing domain… the hard part was getting pages on the new address to rank higher than the old one that fandom won’t delete.

      what you should do for any wiki is add the wiki’s search as a search engine in your browser. firefox makes it easy to do. just go to the wiki (i.e. wiki.warframe.com), right-click in the search box on that page, choose ‘add search engine’. add a ‘keyword’ to make searching it easy (e.g. wf), so now all you have to do to search the warframe wiki is type in firefox’s address box, example: wf void trader

  • Sims@lemmy.mlEnglish
    232·
    14 days ago

    The whole Alphabet group are one big mis-information hub. They also support Genocide and ‘The Trump’. Wether it is censoring sites/people that disagree with US elites, or if they are pushing information seekers to their own controlled information garden, or western corporate eco-systems, we all need to get rid of them.

  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zipEnglish
    191·
    13 days ago

    The problem with Google is that they made the best version of their product in the first try. All they could do from there would be making it worse.

    • nightlily@leminal.spaceEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      It’s nice we‘re getting some community structures back that existed in the pre-social media era. Maybe we won’t be so quick to let them go this time.

  • Widdershins@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    13 days ago

    How the hell does fandom exist as a top result every time but exist as an absolute shit source of information also every time?

  • zeezee@slrpnk.netEnglish
    11·
    13 days ago

    i think their guess is right on the money

    My best guess (and to be clear, this is a guess): Google decided they could no longer effectively identify and swat away SEO slop, and figured that just massively nerfing brand new domains was their next best option.

    this makes a lot of sense if you’ve tried searching for literally anything nowadays – most of the results are generated AI slop for the specific keywords you’ve searched for – can only imagine the nightmare if you could do this for a whole domain subtree – such a shame that because of slop actually useful wikis have to suffer – abs atrocious

  • kalpol@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    13 days ago

    This is really when the old web rings would be nice to have back. It was a web because sites linked to each other. Less efficient but at least things could be found, versus the gated access we have now.

  • Wataba@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    13 days ago

    I use extensions that auto direct away from Wikia (dont validate them stealing a term they have no right to), and block the wikia link for good measure. If there isn’t an alternative, such as for very minor stuff, then I make do with the slop and heavy filtering.

    Push for auto redirectors. They will help in steering people to fresh wiki and bypassing this shit.