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Google Cache was useful because you could sometimes not find a term or keyword in the web site, but it would be in the cache. Or for sites that have gone offlin

Google Cache was useful because you could sometimes not find a term or keyword in the web site, but it would be in the cache. Or for sites that have gone offline, or no longer have the item. "It's still in the Google Cache!" you can't say that anymore. I use Google less and less these days. What's the point when you can just ask an LLM, and it gives you an answer within seconds, with no ads? You can ask for references and links and it will give those to you too. I don't think I've ever been given a link to an SEO content farm, where as with Google search its the entire page. Google Search feels like Yahoo was (maybe even worse) right before it died and was replaced with Bing.

EasyMark 2y ago
LLM… no ads…. *For now
- AbstractH24 2y ago
  I’m honestly less worried about ads that I am pay for preferential treatment
- account42 2y ago
  *That you notice. Assuming that the output isn't biased towards the operator's interests is naive.
deanCommie 2y ago
This still happens all the time. * I search a keyword * I see a google result * I see the keyword IN THE PREVIEW on Google * I click on the link * No keyword And this isn't hidden SEO spam stuff, it was literally removed. The cache doesn't match the live result. No recourse.
- iggldiggl 2y ago
  Another annoying scenario is when the search result isn't the actual page/article/… itself, but only a snippet within a site's own (paginated) index. At the time Google had indexed that page, the article preview you were looking for was maybe on page 5 of that index, but by the time you're arriving, it might have moved to page 11 because of all the additional content that got added since then. With online shops it's even worse, because there items get both added and possibly removed again, plus the default ordering usually isn't strictly chronologically but some sort of popularity-based or whatever algorithm, so something that originally was indexed on page 5 of the catalogue might by now be on page 2 or on page 12 or it might have been dropped from the inventory altogether.
  - account42 2y ago
    Even worse are the related articles/posts some sites like to show next to the main content. It really shows Google's lack of progress that they still haven't figured out a way to handle these cases better.
neop1x 2y ago
Google index sometimes also contain content which is under paywall or cookiewall. Two major sites in Czechia started implementing cookie walls, which is against GDPR but our local office for data privacy is not acting so it seems they are probably paid by those websites...

EasyMark 2y ago

LLM… no ads…. *For now

AbstractH24 2y ago
I’m honestly less worried about ads that I am pay for preferential treatment
account42 2y ago
*That you notice. Assuming that the output isn't biased towards the operator's interests is naive.

deanCommie 2y ago

This still happens all the time. * I search a keyword * I see a google result * I see the keyword IN THE PREVIEW on Google * I click on the link * No keyword And this isn't hidden SEO spam stuff, it was literally removed. The cache doesn't match the live result. No recourse.

iggldiggl 2y ago
Another annoying scenario is when the search result isn't the actual page/article/… itself, but only a snippet within a site's own (paginated) index. At the time Google had indexed that page, the article preview you were looking for was maybe on page 5 of that index, but by the time you're arriving, it might have moved to page 11 because of all the additional content that got added since then. With online shops it's even worse, because there items get both added and possibly removed again, plus the default ordering usually isn't strictly chronologically but some sort of popularity-based or whatever algorithm, so something that originally was indexed on page 5 of the catalogue might by now be on page 2 or on page 12 or it might have been dropped from the inventory altogether.
- account42 2y ago
  Even worse are the related articles/posts some sites like to show next to the main content. It really shows Google's lack of progress that they still haven't figured out a way to handle these cases better.

neop1x 2y ago

Google index sometimes also contain content which is under paywall or cookiewall. Two major sites in Czechia started implementing cookie walls, which is against GDPR but our local office for data privacy is not acting so it seems they are probably paid by those websites...