Wikipedia talk:Search engine test

Hi, I'm seeing a lot of articles, particularly newspaper articles published in media located in developing countries, labelled "PR" or "blog" in Google search results, when in fact that there is nothing to indicate that the newspaper article was a blog/PR article and it is not clear how the Google algorithm has determined this. For example, [https://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Technical-vocational-training-expensive-UBTEB/688334-4861474-13kwc30z/ this article] in the Ugandan Daily Monitor is listed as "(press release) (blog)" in [https://www.google.com/search?q=ntinda+vocational+training+institute&rlz=1C1GCEA_enGB869GB869&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiy0auz-5PlAhXVoFwKHQCBAKkQ_AUIFCgD&biw=1920&bih=937 the Google search results]. At AFD this can lead to these references being dismissed as not reliable or not independent based simply on what Google have published, which appears not to be reliable (the Daily Monitor is a well-established Ugandan newspaper and the article is clearly not a blog and very unlikely to be PR). Can we put something in here to say that simply because Google (or any other search engine) lists something as a PR/Blog article, does not necessarily mean that it is? FOARP (talk) 10:13, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Does a JSTOR search test count as WP:HITS? Firestar464 (talk) 04:32, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

A "Common Name" section should be added as assessing what the common name of something is is a very common use of search engines here. FOARP (talk) 15:16, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

== Retirement of Alexa ==

Alexa has been retired by Amazon as of May 1, 2022. Greenlio (talk) 17:42, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

the page currently does not have the template {{pp-semi|small=yes}} although it's semi-protected, when will it be added? thanks 103.47.210.34 (talk) 02:37, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

:{{Done}}[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Search_engine_test&diff=prev&oldid=1152927361] --DB1729^talk 04:30, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

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