Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts

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  • uBlock-Origin-dev-filter

    Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other search engines. Specific to dev websites like StackOverflow or GitHub.

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  • Killed by Google

    Part guillotine, part graveyard for Google's doomed apps, services, and hardware.

  • > It's also not clear why Google killed Blogger.

    Because they kept chasing "the next big thing" aka "the next product to give me promotion inside the company".

    Remember Google Wave? Knoll? Plus? Orkut? Spaces? iGoogle and Sites? Slide? Jaiku? Buzz? Aardvark?...

    (I had to scroll through https://killedbygoogle.com to remember some of them)

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Back2source

    Discontinued Userscript for redirect to source sites from sites with machine translation, etc.

  • > The funny thing is the site which should have been removed like the of Stackoverflow spam clones, or sites like Canva and Pinterest that make thousands of similar looking pages with slightly different heading are still allowed and rank on Google.

    I recommend this userscript https://github.com/vladgba/Back2source for avoiding Stackexchange clones, it saved me a lot of time.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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