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I just thought of something. With all the privacy issues going on lately, how many of us that are complaining about poor search results have also installed some

I just thought of something. With all the privacy issues going on lately, how many of us that are complaining about poor search results have also installed some sort of add on to block Google from tracking us? Can that have something to do with it? For example, my search results tend (or used to tend) to be skewed towards results dealing with programming or computers in general. If I search for "exception" I generally get results for "Programming Exceptions" rather than any other type of Exception that can exist.

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WiseWeasel 8y ago
From most complaints I've seen, it would seem to be Google's attempts to decrease the priority of pagerank and exact keyword prominence in trying to offer more "helpful" results that make it less helpful in many situations. There should be a 'dumb search' mode for that. For cases where you don't want a dumb search, maybe analytics blocking could have an impact, as you suggest. Personally, I'd like a mode where they interleave dumb/popular and personalized/relevant results.