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Tangential, but Google search has become worse, as they seemingly have decided to no longer index everything. Looking for specific error messages + a keyword us
by UweSchmidt 6y ago
Tangential, but Google search has become worse, as they seemingly have decided to no longer index everything. Looking for specific error messages + a keyword used to lead directly to the blog article that solves the problem, now the search results seem very superficial. Doing research and exhaustively finding all references of something seems harder now. On Youtube it is even worse, I get 7 search results, that's it. The rest is "recommended for me".
Maybe that's not so tangential after all. Assured of their own power, formerly over other search engines, now increasingly over the websites themselves, they have no incentive to put out a really great product.
- EricE 6y agoIn the results right below where your search terms are, there's a line of light gray text that starts with All News Images - at the end click on Tools. Then change All Results to Verbatim. It eliminates all the recommendations, and the majority of the guesses about context, relevance, etc. Combine that with judicious use of quotes and it's still possible to have decent error message/keyword searches. Never thought I would pine for Altavista.
- UweSchmidt 6y agoThanks, this seems to help quite a bit.