LinkedIn started using placeholder pages for common questions to get content

14 points by WirelessGigabit 2y ago ↗ HN

Today I searched "ghidra compare two binaries" on DuckDuckGo.

This was the first page:

https://www.linkedin.com/advice/0/how-do-you-compare-diff-binaries-ghidra-skills-reverse-engineering

Title & description in DuckDuckGo:

How to Compare and Diff Binaries with Ghidra - LinkedIn Ghidra's Version Tracking is a tool that allows you to compare two binaries in the same project and track the changes between them. It can show you the added, removed or modified functions, data ...

When you click this link you can see it is essentially all empty content asking you, the Linked-in user to fill in the blanks.

Am I the only one distraught by this? First we had companies hiring people to write endless pages of text to get more traffic, and now LinkedIn is not even doing that?

Worse, it makes my search experience (even) worse...

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nicbou 2y ago ↗

I'm just annoyed that the big websites rank ahead no matter what. It's tedious to scroll past all their SEO spam to get to something with substance written by an actual expert.

floydnoel 2y ago ↗

This is why I ended up switching to Kagi. I had been using DDG with !g when necessary, but with the state of the web these days the results have (at least for me) really sucked in the last few years.

I think it is worth paying for products that help me in my professional productivity, for a few reasons. Firstly, I don’t want to be the product. I don’t want to be "sold to" while I'm trying to accomplish work. I might forget what I was doing! I want to support the development of high quality products. I don’t want to be spied on. The list goes on.

Kagi is worth paying for, which is what many other HN users have mentioned. There is a free trial so just give it a try. Please let me know what you think!