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Google is a fine search engine.

meowface 2y ago
It's way worse than before (partly due to the data set simply changing for the worse, to game them and for other reasons) but still the best.
kleiba 2y ago
It's fashionable to bash Google and there's probably good reasons to do so. But I agree, their search is still good (enough) for me. Over the years, I've tried others, including DDG, but ultimately returned to Google every time. So, until a better one comes along, Google's search is fine for me.
- the_duke 2y ago
  Google is mostly fine if you know what you are looking for and if it's not an SEO / ad target topic. If those two don't apply Google is often pretty much useless, just giving you low quality/ AI spam blog posts, useless ad-ridden product comparison sites and marketing pages. There's a reason why adding "reddit" to Google searches has almost become a meme now.
  - randomman1131 2y ago
    Show me an actual query then. Why do people always jump on 'umm Google bad' trends? It's all well and good to say it, but as someone who hasn't ever experienced this (apparently common) problem before, I would like to see to believe.
Iulioh 2y ago
Google is fine unless you need something really specific, chatgpt is better at this point for a lot of queries because Google give you the most simple answer no matter how specific you got with your keywords. I still miss the ability to use "".
- danpalmer 2y ago
  Quotes still work when there are good results. As far as I can tell all that has changed is a) dropping obviously bad duplicate results like Stack Overflow scrape dumps, and b) adding in more un-quoted results when there's a lack of good results for quoted. I personally haven't had any issues with quoting.
  - card_zero 2y ago
    Last time I investigated (many years ago), quoted Google searches only work in some countries. I don't know why. I dug that fact up from a Google help page somewhere.
    - Iulioh 2y ago
      Was counties or languages?
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OtomotO 2y ago
No, it's a fine ad engine. Don't get me wrong, I still find anything I search for, on page 2-N I switched to duckduckgo about 5 years ago and look back occasionally. DDG simply works better for me. I find what I search for usually on page 1. Just to put things into context: I don't care about google, meaning I have no beef with them. I used google search for many years until I switched the default engine, simply because the search results for how I search got worse over time.

It's way worse than before (partly due to the data set simply changing for the worse, to game them and for other reasons) but still the best.

kleiba 2y ago

It's fashionable to bash Google and there's probably good reasons to do so. But I agree, their search is still good (enough) for me. Over the years, I've tried others, including DDG, but ultimately returned to Google every time. So, until a better one comes along, Google's search is fine for me.

the_duke 2y ago
Google is mostly fine if you know what you are looking for and if it's not an SEO / ad target topic. If those two don't apply Google is often pretty much useless, just giving you low quality/ AI spam blog posts, useless ad-ridden product comparison sites and marketing pages. There's a reason why adding "reddit" to Google searches has almost become a meme now.
- randomman1131 2y ago
  Show me an actual query then. Why do people always jump on 'umm Google bad' trends? It's all well and good to say it, but as someone who hasn't ever experienced this (apparently common) problem before, I would like to see to believe.

Iulioh 2y ago

Google is fine unless you need something really specific, chatgpt is better at this point for a lot of queries because Google give you the most simple answer no matter how specific you got with your keywords. I still miss the ability to use "".

danpalmer 2y ago
Quotes still work when there are good results. As far as I can tell all that has changed is a) dropping obviously bad duplicate results like Stack Overflow scrape dumps, and b) adding in more un-quoted results when there's a lack of good results for quoted. I personally haven't had any issues with quoting.
- card_zero 2y ago
  Last time I investigated (many years ago), quoted Google searches only work in some countries. I don't know why. I dug that fact up from a Google help page somewhere.
  - Iulioh 2y ago
    Was counties or languages?
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OtomotO 2y ago

No, it's a fine ad engine. Don't get me wrong, I still find anything I search for, on page 2-N I switched to duckduckgo about 5 years ago and look back occasionally. DDG simply works better for me. I find what I search for usually on page 1. Just to put things into context: I don't care about google, meaning I have no beef with them. I used google search for many years until I switched the default engine, simply because the search results for how I search got worse over time.