Google execs admit users are ‘not quite happy’ with search experience after Reddit blackouts
Google execs admit users are ‘not quite happy’ with search experience after Reddit blackouts
Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
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I remember the art of crafting the perfect google search query and knowing you'd eventually find that obscure bit of info. Now I have to quote nearly everything in my query and if a single result in the first 100 results is tangentially related, I'm grateful.
I remember being good at google-fu, and then thinking my google-fu was failing me.
No, it was the Google that failed me.
I've noticed this too, and I want to say it was only noticeable in the last year or two — but it seems to have gotten even worse over the last couple of weeks. Even when I quote something or -exclude a term it is still giving me what it thinks I actually wanted.
Agree. Something definitely changed in the last two years. It's unbelievably bad now, to the point where I give up if the answer isn't among the first 3 results. It's insane.
As others mentioned, Google just straight up ignores most of my quotes and excludes and just shows me what it wants to. Shockingly bad, I remember a time when if I couldn't find something, it was my own failing.
edit: this is with ad-blockers etc btw. Imagine using Google raw, must give you e-AIDS
Yes it had been slowly declining into corporate-centric results but in the past couple of years it's like... almost incomprehensible.
Like what is it even trying to do? On some searches half the results are bizarre AI scraper sites with nonsense content.
I’ve noticed the degradation of google search since they introduced search suggestion completions. That is forever the timemark (landmark for time?) in my mind of the enshittification of google search.
Verbatim search is the only way to use it anymore. I changed that to the default when doing address bar searches.