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Now that you mention it. Am I the only one seeing this? For the past month or so, Google has been less satisfying in their search results for me. I've been an
by thorax 18y ago
Now that you mention it. Am I the only one seeing this?
For the past month or so, Google has been less satisfying in their search results for me. I've been an avid Google search addict since 1998, I really sense a palpable drop in result quality since before the holidays.
Maybe it's a bad index refresh? Maybe they've got some little issue? Maybe it's my discomfort with the invasion of the top search results with "Did you mean BLAH" results?
Or I'm losing my mind? Or maybe they're losing a bit of their touch?
Recently I had 2-3 technical search results that returned much better hits from Yahoo and Live than from Google. This almost never has happened for me-- certainly never before did I start to think "maybe I'm missing out by using Google exclusively".
For a business perspective, I believe this might be adding to why we're seeing increased traffic for our error search engine (http://bug.gd http://bug.gd). Our search results differe substantially from Google's because we optimize for errors across our own web index, our community results, and BOSS. Google used to do a better job of finding these errors in haystacks, too.
Is anyone else feeling this drop in Google search results quality lately? Or is it just me?
- mojonixon 18y agoYou're not alone. I think it's the suggested search results. Almost never useful. I've switched over to yahoo in my toolbar. I think the top search engines are close enough in quality that their results are only distinguishable by interface (there's been research, though I can't remember where). When they change the presentation with that "did you mean" they do more damage to the brand than improvement to the results. It's Google's version of Clippy.