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I mean, this must be a clear benefit to Google, they've removed almost all the abilities to target one's search and just about the only thing left appears to be
by pbhjpbhj 5y ago
I mean, this must be a clear benefit to Google, they've removed almost all the abilities to target one's search and just about the only thing left appears to be using quotes ("") and that is only used as a weak signal for what is put in the SERPs.
There used to be a variable "pws=0" or something that gave non-geographic, non-personalised results.
- ryanianian 5y agoQuotes stopped working ages ago in my experience. Very often I’ll search for a thing in quotes only to follow the top few results where the quoted term appears nowhere using ctrl+f. We are totally subjected to what they think we want. DDG has started doing this too especially if there aren’t that many results.
- yrro 5y agoI expect some genius realized that a zero result page results in the user trying another search engine. But gaslighting their users with subtly incorrect results tricks the user into continuing to refine their query...