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Yes, you're missing the point of the poster above you. He's saying that the kind of technical searches you are trying to do are irrelevant to 99.99% of internet

Yes, you're missing the point of the poster above you. He's saying that the kind of technical searches you are trying to do are irrelevant to 99.99% of internet users and Google is optimized to give superficial but relevant-looking results to those kinds of people. For that metric Google does "work well" So it's not that Google doesn't work, it's that you're using the wrong tool for your use case. If you want highly technical content or precise keyword search you shouldn't use Google. It's like you're going on Tinder to find a marriage partner.

wslh 3y ago
When was the change? These pages were indexed by Google years ago, Google removed them obviously, and the search worked fine in the past. You are saying one day you use your mobile phone for calling and the next day the device only work for calling 0800-*?
- loveparade 3y ago
  It's not yesterday, it was 20 years ago when Google excelled at exact keyword matches. It has been a constant evolution away from that. I hate the new Google as much as others, but if you don't adapt your search habits for 20 years when the whole ecosystem around you has been obviously changing, that's kind of on you. Just use another search engine that fits your use case. Personally I use Kagi and I haven't touched Google for the last year at all.
  - jrumbut 3y ago
    Does Kagi support queries like site, inurl, intitle, etc or have some similar capabilities?
    - zargon 3y ago
      Yes.
  - entropyie 3y ago
    Yep, it's time to give up on Google... Both the search engine and the company. Kagi Fastmail Rsync.net These are worth paying for.
    - genewitch 3y ago
      seconding fastmail - i was grandfathered at $5 a year for years, i pay $15 now i think - and i am probably going to pay for kagi (or ilk). I run nextcloud, after trying other things like syncthing and owncloud - as well as owning a synology i would never put on the public internet.

wslh 3y ago

When was the change? These pages were indexed by Google years ago, Google removed them obviously, and the search worked fine in the past. You are saying one day you use your mobile phone for calling and the next day the device only work for calling 0800-*?

loveparade 3y ago
It's not yesterday, it was 20 years ago when Google excelled at exact keyword matches. It has been a constant evolution away from that. I hate the new Google as much as others, but if you don't adapt your search habits for 20 years when the whole ecosystem around you has been obviously changing, that's kind of on you. Just use another search engine that fits your use case. Personally I use Kagi and I haven't touched Google for the last year at all.
- jrumbut 3y ago
  Does Kagi support queries like site, inurl, intitle, etc or have some similar capabilities?
  - zargon 3y ago
    Yes.
- entropyie 3y ago
  Yep, it's time to give up on Google... Both the search engine and the company. Kagi Fastmail Rsync.net These are worth paying for.
  - genewitch 3y ago
    seconding fastmail - i was grandfathered at $5 a year for years, i pay $15 now i think - and i am probably going to pay for kagi (or ilk). I run nextcloud, after trying other things like syncthing and owncloud - as well as owning a synology i would never put on the public internet.