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Google is getting worse and worse. Today I searched for exact term “boat skipper b”. Google threw ton of trash at me. Ended looking through Bing results and fou

by lnsru 4y ago

Google is getting worse and worse. Today I searched for exact term “boat skipper b”. Google threw ton of trash at me. Ended looking through Bing results and found what I needed. 2/3 of my Google searches are not usable to me. Some advertisement and shady websites as results.

layer8 4y ago
Search Tools > Verbatim I have that option preset in the googling shortcut I use. The URL parameter for that is "tbs=li:1", see https://stenevang.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/google-advanced-power-search-url-request-parameters/ https://stenevang.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/google-advanced-p....
- amelius 4y ago
  I wish we could use version numbers or just say "Use Google from 2010".
M4v3R 4y ago
I recently switched to Kagi and it’s the first time I don’t want to go back to Google. And I tried many other search engines in the past, none of them stuck with me.
- DoingIsLearning 4y ago
  Indeed for technical queries it really feels like a verbatim depth crawler and really makes me feel like a search 'power-user' again. For product search or regional results it's still not there but I specifically pay for Kagi for technical queries (after growing frustration with other engines) and I am very happy with that use-case.
  - M4v3R 4y ago
    Correct, for up-to-date and regional queries Kagi still is a bit lacking, it's the only reason I sometimes fire up Google.
65 4y ago
Most of the time you can do "site:reddit.com" at the beginning of your query and get the information you want.
- pcurve 4y ago
  yep. Google has turned into Reddit search engine for me. I don't entirely blame Google though. The web has changed. Site content has changed. Much of the content that I'm looking for actually exists as videos, so Google does its best to return mixture of YT and web sites. Yet, we can't be bothered to click through them. So we rely on human redditor as aggregators, because we don't want to be one ourselves.

by lnsru 4y ago

layer8 4y ago

Search Tools > Verbatim I have that option preset in the googling shortcut I use. The URL parameter for that is "tbs=li:1", see https://stenevang.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/google-advanced-power-search-url-request-parameters/ https://stenevang.wordpress.com/2013/02/22/google-advanced-p....

amelius 4y ago
I wish we could use version numbers or just say "Use Google from 2010".

M4v3R 4y ago

I recently switched to Kagi and it’s the first time I don’t want to go back to Google. And I tried many other search engines in the past, none of them stuck with me.

DoingIsLearning 4y ago
Indeed for technical queries it really feels like a verbatim depth crawler and really makes me feel like a search 'power-user' again. For product search or regional results it's still not there but I specifically pay for Kagi for technical queries (after growing frustration with other engines) and I am very happy with that use-case.
- M4v3R 4y ago
  Correct, for up-to-date and regional queries Kagi still is a bit lacking, it's the only reason I sometimes fire up Google.

65 4y ago

Most of the time you can do "site:reddit.com" at the beginning of your query and get the information you want.

pcurve 4y ago
yep. Google has turned into Reddit search engine for me. I don't entirely blame Google though. The web has changed. Site content has changed. Much of the content that I'm looking for actually exists as videos, so Google does its best to return mixture of YT and web sites. Yet, we can't be bothered to click through them. So we rely on human redditor as aggregators, because we don't want to be one ourselves.