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Google still gives decent results for many other categories, especially when it comes to factual information. Increasingly it doesn't. I posted a similar findi
by smcin 5y ago
Google still gives decent results for many other categories, especially when it comes to factual information.
Increasingly it doesn't. I posted a similar finding earlier yesterday: Google search relevance fail: result for “Africa longitude” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30337563 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30337563.
- For that query, Bing's image results are much better, but the #1 site hit is still the exact same SEO-manipulated auto-generated e-ecommerce page, not any reputable reference source like we might expect. And that is a basic query.
- I tried the query on Reddit, the results are a disorganized jumble.
- So, the surprise winner on that query is... Bing. Or "none of the above". Back to atlases and encyclopedias.