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This heavily aligns with my experiences over the past few years. Where Google once used to return exact or close results for very specific or niche searches, I
by noptd 5y ago
This heavily aligns with my experiences over the past few years.
Where Google once used to return exact or close results for very specific or niche searches, I feel like it struggles to even land in the same ballpark of results. I've been asking myself whether the results have always been this bad more and more over the last year and a half thinking I've been taking crazy pills. Unfortunately, the current competitors still perform even worse for the same queries so it's not like there's enough of a reason to default elsewhere (yet, I hope).
- vincent_s 5y agoIn the past, Google felt more like a sophisticated professional tool. If you made the effort to click through the results beyond the first page, refine the search query increasingly and, on occasion, enclose individual terms in quotes, you sooner or later landed a hit. Nowadays, the query you enter into the search field is answered by an AI algorithm that works more along the lines of "I know best what you're looking for". For users who are not very knowledgeable about search engines and tend to search rather superficially, this apparently works quite well. For professionals who want to dig out the really interesting hits in the deeper part of the web, an AI-powered search engine of this sort is quite frustrating.
- crazypython 5y agoSometimes https://entireweb.com https://entireweb.com (no affiliation) gets better results than Google.
- rapjr9 5y agoGoogle has a verbatim search, click on Tools/All Results/Verbatim, but it is no longer really verbatim. It often offers results that have only one of your keywords. DuckDuckGo seems to completely ignore any quotes I put around keywords.
- hidden-spyder 5y agoI don' understand why duckduckgo ignores quotes.