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People hate me, maybe its the Google employees on HN but Google search for me has been garbage for at least 10 years now. Even in the late 2000s they crippled i
by giancarlostoro 8mo ago
People hate me, maybe its the Google employees on HN but Google search for me has been garbage for at least 10 years now. Even in the late 2000s they crippled it, every 5 years or so they make it worse and worse.
- bitmasher9 8mo agoIf search shows more ads in the results it means they show more ads. If the organic results are worse then the paid results it means people click on more ads. If people have to search twice to find what they are looking for it means they show more ads. I have no idea how google made their products so sticky while dropping the quality.
- giancarlostoro 8mo agoI think part of the problem is there's a lot of SEO farming type sites too, it feels like a lot of high quality content (even before AI slop was so common) is just gone. I hope Google takes this issue seriously and works on a true PageRank algo / service that fixes their search because its been bad for a while. Now I just ask Perplexity or any model for links to things instead.
- chrisweekly 8mo agoIME this is the consensus view. Google's search quality is abysmal. DDG was the 1st popular alternative, but it's been supplanted by Kagi. Kagi costs a few $ /mo but that's part of its appeal, it's a great deal and a game-changer for the service (vs the user) to be the product.
- bikelang 8mo agoName and shame - https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/