Google Search fucked by Unity's resource? O_o.....

Hi,

Didn’t you guys recently made some Google research with :

  • Vector3 tutorial
  • Matrix tutorial
  • Lookat Vector3 script
  • Quaternion tutorial
  • etc…

… and always getting dozen of pages result from Unity’s documentation, forum, or other Unity’s related communities?

Well, I am just looking for very low level tutorial from Vector3, Quaternion, IA, etc related to Game Dev…
of course if you add C++ or openGL with those key words you’ll find what you was looking for.

Of course I am an Unity user for years, but always looking for pure Mathematics resource to understand how things are working.

Did you experienced the similar problem on your side? or only my Google is fucked? :smile:

Add:

-site:unity3d.com to your searches

It is not Unity fault, is Google because they are indexing everything you see on the internet and since you are most of the time on Unity site, is going to serve you Unity pages first in the results. Try to clear all your history/cache/cookies in your browser and you might get other results than Unity pages.
BUT… dont expect this to work 100%. I suspect Google is personalizing results based on your geo location and most of the times with major differences in results. In my opinion, Google is no longer a tool to find things you need fast and accurate, but a giant marketing spy who look at your browsing history and serve you ads based on pages you open.
One other solution to get underindexed results is to use other search engines, like Bing, Yahoo or whatever you might find.

Yup agree, just saying :slight_smile:
I never been stucked with such google result before.
Maybe we are making too much google search about Unity’s in the company.

I really hope Google doesn’t memorize the research history depending of the location / IP…

On your side, if you try the following research : “Vector 3 lookat”, do you also have a bunch of Unity3d result?

Yes, 8-9 results on top of the search with google. But using Bing only the last on first page is from Unity.

Google bias their results based on what they know about you. Try using ‘Incognito Mode’ in Chrome and then do the same search.

So that’s why I’ve been seeing men in spandex green tights.

Sounds like you need some sleep Hippo, on another deadline?

I’m not allowed a sense of humour? :slight_smile:

Unity, taking over the world.

PS: Search for ‘game engine’

Or just add “-unity”

Woua! I didn’t event know this one!
Awesome tip thanks!!

Using ‘fucked’ to describe poor search results is rather high school dropout language but Google is generally useless except as a spell checker when entering in some top level domain that you know has what you are looking for, like amazon.com for example.

Yeah, in my search of vector math Yahoo pages came up second. Unity pages, when you do find something useful are obsolete so fast too; besides often being generally wrong or a bad way to do things.

Somewhere is an MIT free resource in online education. I think I need to bookmark that…

Here it is: MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials

There is even a topic ‘Linear Algebra’

Ciao