Need list of forums

[geekpros]

Google does not give forum results anymore and it really sucks.  It's amazing how well google ruined the search engine for many different things in 2019.  Anyone know of a search engine that actually searches forums and or looks for forums on the internet?  duckduckgo does not seem to help.  We need website that is specific for searching forums and finding them.  Or a central page with a list of many different forums would be good.  Google used to save me from keeping links to important websites and forums, but now I'll have to keep every link because google has added massive hours to my job this year. Everything is just a little more difficult to solve, especially with all the updates that break our software.

 

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[SupaKomputa]

I say google spiderbot is doing a good job, the problem is not every forum allowed bot to crawl them, especially in members only section.

[geekpros]

Ok, I found google spider or google bot.  Sounds like you submit your site to google so they can crawl it to give results to people using www.google.com.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

So, what happened to all the forums I used to find a year ago when I searched on www.google.com?  Did they forget how to give you those results?  Is there a google spider site I can go to, to submit a question like "company problem voip echo" and then get a list of forums where people have typed that company name and mentioned any problem?

 

This is one major change that has happened in the last year.  Search engines have removed these results that I use.  The forums they used to find, among other things, they are hiding.  I need a real search engine.  Microsoft and Google are no longer a search engine, all of a sudden.  Anybody know of a search engine that does not use politics to filter your results?  Can we make our own?  Does every search engine just rely on Google and Microsoft?  It seems so. 

 

Supakomputa, can you you clarify.  You didn't give me any type of link to your suggestion of google spiderbot, to actually use it... just the answer of spiderbot, and then I have to spend 20 minutes figuring out that I'm probably wasting my time.  Basically, you fell in line with what google and Microsoft are doing to my job.  Extending it every day and adding work and time. Your answer left so much open that I could write a book.  How about actually typing something and giving a real answer so the next person does not have to spend time doing research.  I would add links if I were going to tell someone about this thing called google spider... and I would clarify if it would remotely help resolve the issue that "I used to find forums with a search, but now I don't".  This does not require that the forums submit additional details that they did not a year ago.  Just more BS.

 

 

 

[Lurick]

Google spiderbot is nothing more than a joke or play on words. The official term is called a spider bot, or a web-crawling spider, or a bot, or any number of things. All search engines use them to crawl the web, gobbling up information to sort, categorize, etc. There are pages you can add that only present themselves to bots that say if the bot is allowed to categorize the website and it's information. It's up to the web administrator to turn this settings on and off.

 

Aside your comment coming off like you're a real jerk to deal with there are many reasons things change with search results and things you can do to find what you're looking for:

1. Look up SEO. Sites use the heck out of this to use specific keywords like crazy so they appear on the top of the results. You need to get better filtering out what you don't want and get used to digging deeper.

2. Anyone with the knowledge and time can make a search engine, but for it to be good takes lots of money or time to grow and get money. You could make your own with enough time but then you need to pay to store all the information, pay for compute power to sort that information, etc.

3. Learn to get better at advanced searching. If you know a particular site then "site:blah.net" (without quotes) will filter results to that site only and put them at the top.