This search should obviously return the official Docker Hub Redis image, https://hub.docker.com/_/redis, but it’s just a bunch of blogs.
On DuckDuckGo the first result is the Docker Hub image, which is what everyone would want.
Google definitely has its moments of returning crap results, but you chose a terrible example.
Results from both docker and redis, on topic for exactly what you asked for.
Why even use Google at all, when you could search docker hub If that’s what you knew you wanted.
You asked for docker redis image, received docker.com talking about redis, and redis.io talking about docker
Idk that seems pretty on the point to me
With such a query the first expected result would be https://hub.docker.com/_/redis, and then blog posts if really that’s what you want.
On my device I cannot find a link to dockerhub at all with the same query.
No, it wouldn’t. If you wrote dockerhub instead of docker, then it would be. Or maybe a “site:” dork.
Yeah, I don’t see the problem here. Those are the pages with the download links (and also instructions to use them, for folks who need it)
What did you want, a direct download link to a file? An FTP site?
You literally got what you asked for. There are plenty of examples of Google search sucking, this is you just being pissy because there’s instructions on a download page.
This search should obviously return the official Docker Hub Redis image, https://hub.docker.com/_/redis,
That’s what they wanted and it’s the first result in seemingly every other search engine.
If you think that’s bad, try googling something related to Android.
All the results are shitty blog posts full of padding text with grammar and spelling mistakes.For anyone wondering, here’s that same query in DDG (zoomed out to show same amount of results)
This is the moment I switch to DDG. I started using google in 2003 and I think I’m done now.
This is definitely what I’d want if I search for this
man SEO really has managed to break search. There’s so many random blogs that just have pretty much just your search terms in the title and rarely have anything else of use.
There’s usually just AI-generated meandering with no actual information in it.
idk… the first two results seem both relevant and authoritative.
You may not be a developer, but the first expected result with that query would be a link to https://hub.docker.com/_/redis
Google is really bad at this for some reason and will point you to blogs that as a dev I don’t care in the slightest. Hell, using the same query I cannot find a single link to dockerhub on my device, it’s extremely frustrating
I’m a developer and I’d much rather have the docs. Who the fuck can remember FROM reddis?
It’s important to look at the dockerhub page to see the available tags (I usually prefer smaller images like alpine)
The usage docs for the docker image should be in the dockerhub readme.
But the first result to the query
docker redis imageshould be the dockerhub entry, followed maybe by blog posts and tutorials.Otherwise you can query something like
redis docorredis docker tutorial.
It’s a garbage blog that starts as an ad for Docker Hub, that’s clearly not what I want.
Clearly? Your keywords are docker and reddis… here is a page, from docker.com talking about that exact thing.
How can you automate the relevance of the page? manually review? block all blog (some blogs are good).
Google uses signals, like you clicking on other links, to determine the quality of results, so your terminal click is the high quality result.
You complain the first result is an ad for docker hub, but your stated desired result is … docker hub…
But couldnt they active their brain during development? Or have for the big websites that have something special a special case?
for example on docker you dont want ugly Blogs from them you want the images if you ask for docker IMAGENAME. They know the path paterns /ORG/IMAGENAME.
If you have issues then you will query docker how to use IMAGENAME or similar then the blog would be perfect. Otherwise useless information.
your taking your human level domain specific knowledge of a specific site structure - and generalizing it to a search engine. How is the search engine going to know the best result to give you?
If a search is for docker NAME image so google shows users
- A - blog talking about NAME image from Docker.com taking users step by step
- B - direct link to the hub.docker.com for IMAGE with nothing else, but the download page
Which result is going to get more terminal, and high quality clicks from searchers?
Realizing that many of the people who are using docker daily are either going to already go to the hub directly, or do site:hub.docker.com in some quick search bar
The population of searchers who find the A result more beneficial is probably higher then the B result, most people prefer step by step instructions and some hand holding when searching. The pros who have a groove and rythem, I suspect, have more direct ways to get what they want.
While google can improve, i’m not seeing this as gore, the relevant result this user wanted was the 5th link, and the first 2 links both got them there as well.
ok boomer then use “docker pull” why are you Googling it
Probably to lookup what are the possible environment vars for the container.
The second one is relevant official documentation tho
I’m confused then. If you were looking for a docker image, why not start in hub.docker.com?
I’m not an expert in containers, but I know enough to know if I am looking for an image, I go to docker hub.
I agree with OP here, these results are not great.
OP searched for the redis docker image, not a tutorial on how to use it, not a tutorial on why redis should be run in docker, and did not search for redis docker docs. While these are relevant, they should be further down, not the top result. DDG gets this right, and I’m pretty sure other search engines do too.
For a total newbie, these results are probably OK, but for a technical person who knows what they want literally as they type it, Google’s results are (excuse my french) simply shit. DDG is miles better at handling this stuff, and they don’t need your personal data to do it well either.
Edit: Just went and searched “redis docker image” in a private tab on Google, and the docker hub image for Redis is not even shown on the first page of results
This search should obviously return the official Docker Hub Redis image
It’s the 5th result for me.
Don’t really see the “gore” … those are all relevant results.
The “gore” is “Google bad.” Not really much else to it.
I searched for help on a game I was playing the other day and got 300 results, all the same forum post. Like, the exact same post 300 times
On kagi, the first result is also the docker hub link. This example is not actually that bad though, the first 2 results at least still relevant (from docker and redis domains) instead of some random blogspam (3rd result).
Funny I unintentionally searched kagi with the keywords in the wrong order - and got it in the first result
It’s the second result for me.
Kagi is so good
Just for fun let’s compare the search results of docker redis image:
- Google results - A, B, C, D*, E
- DDG results - E, A, B, F*, G*
- Bing results - A, E, B, C, G* (Bing throws up a bunch of Cards, which i ignored for these comparisons)
So more or less the same high quality results in the top 5 results across the engines, with a little reordering going on.
the* means blog spam.
- A - docker.com
- B - Redis.io
- C - github docker-library
- D* - Kinsta.com
- E - hub.docker.com
- F* - How to geek
- G* - phoenixnap
Isn’t duckduckgo just bing with disabled tracking?
cough-bing is actually alright, sorry-cough
I had a similar experience today. I wanted to run a battlefield 2042 server and forgot the URL.
(It’s https://portal.battlefield.com)
So I google searched for “Run a battlefield 2042 server” thinking obviously that would lead to that page. Nope, all it gave me were blog posts and wikihow shit.
I was searching how to cast the screen on an Android phone through USB yesterday, and I had to go through pages of “free” Play Store apps and their shitty tutorials, some of which I downloaded, (one had 50 million downloads) two of which were identical skins of each other that wanted payment information and charged $20 a month after a week long trial, to eventually find out it’s a default included option on any Samsung phone and can be found in some settings. Google search has completely gone to shit.
If you’re still looking for a solution, I highly recommend “scrcpy” https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
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