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> Google improves search every year. I don’t believe this based on my own search experience getting worse year over year. I believe they know how to improve it

> Google improves search every year. I don’t believe this based on my own search experience getting worse year over year. I believe they know how to improve it, but they choose to increase revenue instead. Results seem to be less relevant to me and there are frequently more ad results than organic that display on the page. I think they are able to do this because of lock in with users and vendors. If there was more competition, there wouldn’t be such bad results.

dantheman 3y ago
I think you don't understand how much worse the internet has gotten - there are a large amount of bad actors actively trying to make google worse (junk content, etc) - Even just providing the same level of quality results with decreasing quality source data is an improvement. If it was easy to extract better results there would be competition with better results.
- prepend 3y ago
  I definitely don’t understand. But I’m fairly certain that having 50-100% of the first page of search results be ads isn’t good for the internet. And it’s made worse by google search recommending chrome and chrome recommending google search.
- sickill 3y ago
  And yet for me DuckDuckGo provides better results, consistently, for last few years. If “internet has gotten much worse” is true (I agree in many aspects it did) then DDG must be improving search at faster pace than Google.
CoastalCoder 3y ago
Perhaps you and Google have different definitions of quality.
- riku_iki 3y ago
  I am confident this is the case. there is some vp of the search in goodle, and he has bunch of metrics on his screen, some go down and some go up, and he obviously will chose those metrics which looks favorable to report to upper level, and then promote people who did "great" job of achieving those metrics, and fund and expand their projects.
barbazoo 3y ago
That line gave me a chuckle, too. It was so hilariously bad, it was funny in a way.

dantheman 3y ago

I think you don't understand how much worse the internet has gotten - there are a large amount of bad actors actively trying to make google worse (junk content, etc) - Even just providing the same level of quality results with decreasing quality source data is an improvement. If it was easy to extract better results there would be competition with better results.

prepend 3y ago
I definitely don’t understand. But I’m fairly certain that having 50-100% of the first page of search results be ads isn’t good for the internet. And it’s made worse by google search recommending chrome and chrome recommending google search.
sickill 3y ago
And yet for me DuckDuckGo provides better results, consistently, for last few years. If “internet has gotten much worse” is true (I agree in many aspects it did) then DDG must be improving search at faster pace than Google.

CoastalCoder 3y ago

Perhaps you and Google have different definitions of quality.

riku_iki 3y ago
I am confident this is the case. there is some vp of the search in goodle, and he has bunch of metrics on his screen, some go down and some go up, and he obviously will chose those metrics which looks favorable to report to upper level, and then promote people who did "great" job of achieving those metrics, and fund and expand their projects.

barbazoo 3y ago

That line gave me a chuckle, too. It was so hilariously bad, it was funny in a way.