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Agreed, cant even count the amount of times I have searched for $VERY_SPECIFIC_THING on Google, but got 10 pages of completely irrelevant references to somethin
by throwaway2048 7y ago
Agreed, cant even count the amount of times I have searched for $VERY_SPECIFIC_THING on Google, but got 10 pages of completely irrelevant references to something that has close to matching keywords and is way more popular.
- Razengan 7y agoThere has been a very noticeable decline in Google Search result quality over the last 3 or so years. It seems pointless to try complete proper sentences anymore. Even specific queries about X often shows me "TOP 10 X!!!" or similar adcrap.
- solarkraft 7y agoIs this measurable? I have this impression as well, but wonder whether it's purely subjective. Oh maybe the decline of findability of specific things is caused by the increase of total things on the web.
- Razengan 7y agoIt varies. I thought about collecting every instance of bad results along with the IP address region and Private Browsing state etc.
- LoSboccacc 7y agoat some point they removed the "show users link he clicked before" and that makes the start of Google usefulness. you used to get Wikipedia and stack overflow reliably on top in 2014, then by 2015 it stopped, where by Google choice of by content farm Henning better at gaming the system idk, but the key was removing history from result bias
- philtar 7y agoI've never seen that in my autocomplete. Must be based on your previous search results.
- ComputerGuru 7y agoYeah, I wrote about it a few years ago and it was discussed here on HN too, I think: https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/on-the-growing-intentional-uselessness-of-google-search-results/ https://neosmart.net/blog/2016/on-the-growing-intentional-us...