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Google search results have been gradually getting worse for me as well.
by Judgmentality 5y ago
Google search results have been gradually getting worse for me as well.
- munchbunny 5y agoPersonally I've felt that useful results have been pretty consistently on the first page for a while, and some of the specialized widgets have even improved that, but over the last ~3 years more and more of that has become an exercise of dodging the ads to find the actual result. Feels like the frog getting boiled.
- version_five 5y agoFor me it depends on what I'm searching. For more obscure stuff, I find google better. Sometimes I accidentally use bing (it's a default on one of my machines) and I usually eventually have a "oh right, this isn't Google" moment when I can't find what I'm looking for. OTOH, if it's anything that has been SEO'd, I find google has gotten really bad. Last week I tried to google for what frying pan to buy, and everything I saw was a un-trustworthy ad. Incidentally, it's the same for python: you google some very common thing like how to sort a list, the first few links are spam (but the docs are still high in the list usually). You google something obscure and usually get the relevant stack overflow first.