I was trying to research what types of tests are used to determine hormone levels yesterday, but of course all the results are health sites about how to get a hormone test or when you might need one. It takes several search refinements to get any information that you are looking for.
All search engines suffer from an over abundance of information, so much so that it's becoming more and more difficult to find useful information. You really have to know quite a bit about the field you are researching and what terms to use, but of course by that time you probably don't need to search for it.
I want a type of search engine that is predictive and can filter out results based on your search history (for example filter out surface level health information sites if I almost never click on them).
Yeah, health is the worst. So is anything related to parenting. In general, any topic that's relevant to the majority of people on the planet is totally swamped in content marketing garbage.
This makes me wonder how much a benefit the Internet really is for people, information-wise. These general audience articles I see polluting top search results tend to be at best non-informative, at worst spreading total bullshit, and they're also designed to maximize the time you're spending reading them.
Exactly, and it's a compounding problem. The sites with the best information don't win, it's the sites with content optimized to get clicks. It's a problem that gets worse with time and more "real" information gets crowded out.
If there's already a good paper or article on what types of tests are used to determine hormone levels I'm not going to make another one, even if it was difficult to find. There are no such barriers stopping health blogs from creating dozens of "why you need a testosterone test today!" articles, however.
> There are no such barriers stopping health blogs from creating dozens of "why you need a testosterone test today!" articles, however.
What's even worse, there's good business in manufacturing (often copy-pasting and lightly paraphrasing) such bullshit articles. It's actually an entire profession at this point, called "content marketing".
I like the idea of a search history filter for results, maybe locally as a Bayesian classifier based on a browser history, that I can edit, manually score, and that learns as my interests change. Custom search engine with arbitrary regex scripting would be worth a few bucks a month to almost any coder.
Oh, I know what a regex is. But got confused about what wolf a regex search engine look like. I think I understand the idea, just wanted a clarification to make sure.
All search engines suffer from an over abundance of information, so much so that it's becoming more and more difficult to find useful information. You really have to know quite a bit about the field you are researching and what terms to use, but of course by that time you probably don't need to search for it.
I want a type of search engine that is predictive and can filter out results based on your search history (for example filter out surface level health information sites if I almost never click on them).