Big week! We just finished moving the Overwatch and Fortnite wikis off of Fandom. It’s still my favorite thing in the world to help wiki editors grab control of their projects and make them awesome (and not covered with a dozen auto-playing video ads!)
  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    1 hour 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.

  • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
    24·
    13 hours 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
      7·
      10 hours 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

  • riot@fedia.io
    29·
    16 hours 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!

    • DevDave@piefed.socialEnglish
      17·
      15 hours ago

      I have switched to DuckDuckgo and while their index is crap, it’s at least has more crap than what Google has.

      DuckDuckgo I believe leases the Bing engine so I am still trying others.

      also now I am using the direct search engines for specific sites… eg ‘@wiki <my search query>’ to use Wikipedias onwn search.

      • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        3·
        13 hours ago

        Startpage uses Google’s index, or used to. At very least, it seems to have more and different results than DuckDuckGo.

        • DevDave@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          Oh interesting, Startpage looks like it has access to Google’s image search dataset and possibly their crazy ass vector basesd mobius strip index system

  • Sims@lemmy.mlEnglish
    111·
    16 hours 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.