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Matt left google many moons ago and, with the benefit of hindsight, his departure coincidied with google's pivot to the dark side and progressive lack of concer
by dazc 5y ago
Matt left google many moons ago and, with the benefit of hindsight, his departure coincidied with google's pivot to the dark side and progressive lack of concern for such search quality issues.
- anyfoo 5y agoI had the same thought. Matt Cutts seemed very on top of things from the outside at least, and I was wondering when he left how that would affect search quality. Though without any further insight I have of course no idea whether the recent steep decline is really related. It's gotten very frustrating in the last year or so. I barely leave "Verbatim" mode (and hate that it's so many clicks each time to activate it). But with or without that, I frequently have the situation where I search for something very specific and technical, just to get pages of pages of search results for sites that have names similar to "techgeekhowto", telling me how to reboot my Mac. It's maddening.
- usr1106 5y agoVerbatim mode? Never heard about that. In the past using double quotes did something like that, is it the same thing? Disclaimer: DDG user mostly.
- anyfoo 5y ago"Tools -> All Results -> Verbatim" in Google. I'm not sure of the exact differences, but Verbatim essentially means "match exactly those words, and all of those words", while I still seemed to perceive some fuzziness with double quotes (unless you put the whole phrase into quotes, I think, but then you also search for only that exact phrase instead of words).