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These days Google just takes you to the site with the most ads. The quality of the search results has nosedived in the last ten years.
by mr_toad 5y ago
These days Google just takes you to the site with the most ads. The quality of the search results has nosedived in the last ten years.
- PostThisTooFast 5y agoAnd they took away the ability to block specific sites from search results, so you're forced to wade through all the search-term-harvesting spam sites. The best example is the ones that simply republish StackOverflow content. Screen upon screen of them. Oh yeah, and Google got rid of the "+" sign that used to let you require the presence of a word in results, allegedly because of their "Google Plus" crap. Now that that's dead and gone, did they restore the "+" operator? Nope. Now you have to discover (and bother with) the "allintext:" prefix.
- m0zg 5y agoNot just "today". In late 00s folks at Microsoft Bing noticed that every time they'd release relevance improvements, Google within a couple of days would boost its search relevance just enough to stay a pace ahead. The running theory at MS was that they had a lot of gas in the tank relevance-wise, but artificially hobbled it, so that it's just above Bing's. Why? Because fewer people will click on the ads if the results are _too_ relevant. They'll click on the links instead.