Small rant... Top 10 gear list = top piles of excrement

[MadAsAHatter]

Small rant.....

Like most of you I like to window shop for gear, check out reviews and try to find stuff I haven't heard of before. Instead of finding anything remotely resembling what I google searched for I get these shit top 10 whatever lists. When you put bugera and monoprice in your top list.... Fuck you stop wasting my time you worthless bag of smashed assholes. And fuck you google for loading my page with these steaming piles of corn filled excrement. It would be nice is the damn search algorithm would stop circle jerking itself and show me something useful once in a while.

 

[RaceU4her]

I kind of want a bugera 1960, and with the stupid prices 5150s are going for now I wouldnt mind a 6260 either

 

[Monkey Man]

Like most of you I like to window shop for gear, check out reviews and try to find stuff I haven't heard of before. Instead of finding anything remotely resembling what I google searched for I get these shit top 10 whatever lists. When you put bugera and monoprice in your top list.... Fuck you stop wasting my time you worthless bag of smashed assholes. And fuck you google for loading my page with these steaming piles of corn filled excrement. It would be nice is the damn search algorithm would stop circle jerking itself and show me something useful once in a while.

Testify!

 

[Bro KV]

“Top 10 Amps for Metal” is full of lulz

 

[cliffc8488]

It's everything nowadays and it ruins searching. You can't search for best [insert item here] without getting hundreds of useless top 10 links. And all of them are just pushing Chinese crap from Amazon.

 

[Monkey Man]

Same with software.

 

[Chubbs]

Are you sure you don't need a positive grid spark?

Everything I search for now is followed by "forum" for your exact reason. Google has turned into a SEO and affiliate link haven.

 

[panhead]

Bugera 1960 probably bring a grand now, they stop making them years ago.

 

[DanTravis62]

Honestly I dont even google shit anymore. I refuse to spend any more money than I have to, to survive, from the fucking commies in china.

So that means my phone, and maybe the cats litter box, and like 2 mooer pedals.

I would honest to god rather spend 10 times as much to know the person who made my product did it without a suicide net.

 

[stratjacket]

Yeah, I’ve never put any stock in any top 10 list, unless I’m just really bored and need a laugh.

 

[311boogieman]

Top ten reasons not to search for Top 10 lists.

1. As OP stated
2. China
3. Big Tech
4. Google is evil
5. There are better uses of your time
6. They are made by idiots
7. They are made for idiots
8. Bugera V22 is not that bad
9. Cleaning cat litter is more fun
10. You have Rig-Talk

 

[Clig Herdunkachuk]

Yeah, Google sucks! It is a adaptive/learning type of system that has been trained by a load of jackwads, aka the general public.

I has also become polluted with old content that is no longer as valuable as it once was. When you search for … let’s say iPhones, all the pages for older versions which have been published for years or even decades and have been collecting hits and clicks and increasing in rank all that time infiltrate your search and co-mingle with pages with more current information.

Couple that with crappy page titles that are ambiguous (e.g. they do not specify the version of iPhone they are about).

It is a recipe for a tool that confuses users, making it harder to distinguish good information from irelevant or even bad information for that users specific context.

One way I have found to reduce this effect is by intentionally searching in a way that is calculated to be different from how most people search.

The “Top 10 X ….” or “Best …” searches are shit because marketer know that is how people looking to spend money tend to search. So they spend LOTS of money tuning their site to rank well in such searches.

To cut through the advertising noise, In the case of gear, I search for negatives. I ask question like ”delay pedal issues forum”. I do the “forum” at the end to rank up pages that are published on forums where you can find people who are not compensated (at least mostly so) arguing and talking about products. If I find a broad pattern then, I take note. Everything else is taken as an individual opinion and nothing more. It is basically playing on the law of large numbers to infer a fairly reasonable assumption.

 

[ZEN Amps]

Searching around on Google for new and interesting gear has never even crossed my mind. Now I'm glad.

Surely forums, friends and magazines are far more effective?

 

[Dino 939]

Yeah, Google sucks! It is a adaptive/learning type of system that has been trained by a load of jackwads, aka the general public.

I has also become polluted with old content that is no longer as valuable as it once was. When you search for … let’s say iPhones, all the pages for older versions which have been published for years or even decades and have been collecting hits and clicks and increasing in rank all that time infiltrate your search and co-mingle with pages with more current information.

Couple that with crappy page titles that are ambiguous (e.g. they do not specify the version of iPhone they are about).

It is a recipe for a tool that confuses users, making it harder to distinguish good information from irelevant or even bad information for that users specific context.

One way I have found to reduce this effect is by intentionally searching in a way that is calculated to be different from how most people search.

The “Top 10 X ….” or “Best …” searches are shit because marketer know that is how people looking to spend money tend to search. So they spend LOTS of money tuning their site to rank well in such searches.

To cut through the advertising noise, In the case of gear, I search for negatives. I ask question like ”delay pedal issues forum”. I do the “forum” at the end to rank up pages that are published on forums where you can find people who are not compensated (at least mostly so) arguing and talking about products. If I find a broad pattern then, I take note. Everything else is taken as an individual opinion and nothing more. It is basically playing on the law of large numbers to infer a fairly reasonable assumption.

Yep, you know what’s up.
Every time I touch this IPhone…it’s
“Welcome.. to the labyrinth of lunacy”…