> Worse, when I asked Google about this, and indicated why I thought it was a severe problem, they sent back boilerplate. > Unfortunately, early this morning w

> Worse, when I asked Google about this, and indicated why I thought it was a severe problem, they sent back boilerplate. > Unfortunately, early this morning we were briefly surfacing an inaccurate 4chan website in our Search results for a small number of queries. Within hours, the 4chan story was algorithmically replaced by relevant results. This should not have appeared for any queries, and we’ll continue to make algorithmic improvements to prevent this from happening in the future. I believe Google can be lax about quality of results because it has no real competitor. These are the moments when I wish there was a healthy competition among search engines, so that all of them would be on their toes to deliver best results. Having said that, did anyone try DDG or Bing during the initial period after the event? How was the quality of the news results on those sites?