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> Of course the issue isn't reproducible; Google is trying to do the search based on their model of what you want back... There's a problem here though, which
by tshaddox 4y ago
> Of course the issue isn't reproducible; Google is trying to do the search based on their model of what you want back...
There's a problem here though, which is that there is no way for me or any other reader to discern whether the reality of the situation is "it's not reproducible and the commenter is misremembering basic facts about their search results due perhaps to some unrelated frustrations" and "it's not reproducible but the commenter's account is accurate."
I completely share the views about Google's search results being terrible, but it's still possible to overstate how bad they are. And I do find it fairly difficult to believe that Google would show some people paid programming courses as the top 4 results for that query when much more relevant results clearly exist and everyone attempting to reproduce this gets those more relevant results.
- copymoro 4y agonor are we anywhere near being able to inspect how google is doing all this. if only there were some way to somehow be able to share that information with everybody, some technology so that we can all access such potentially useful information about how google is functioning right now sorry about the snark, but it's a vent for accumulative frustration from seeing a worsening trend in this regard. Kafka would recognize this trend; computing is truly becoming a "bureaucrat's best friend".
- int_19h 4y agoI believe the OP because I've had that exact problem once myself, except in my case it was "helpfully" substituting FreeBSD in the query with Linux.