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Ask HN: What's Up with Google?
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Re: Ask HN: What's Up with Google?
#122I was terribly frustrated by the google results for "covid test to fly domestic". The "hoisted" response was: "Get tested at least 5 days after your last close contact and make sure your test result is negative and you remain without symptoms before traveling. If you don't get tested, delay travel until a full 10 days after your last close contact with a person with COVID-19." Domestic Travel During COVID-19 | CDC ht…
> You need to look closely at this first hit to realize it dates from 2019 No, it doesn't. It couldn't, because there were no tests for COVID-19 in the US until Feb 2020, so the CDC could not possibly be recommending testing before domestic travel in 2019. (The 2019-ncov refers to the novel coronavirus identified in 2019, not the date of the article.) It may be outdated (the CDC has changed recommendations frequently…
Thanks for pointing that out, both of you! (If not more by now.) Obvious in hindsight and no snark on being corrected. I'd honestly forgotten the -19 nomenclature.
So, I guess I was right to be in a panic about making my flight after all, based on the initial google result. (I don't know when the guidance changed, but the google result is still as I first saw it.)
Re: Ask HN: What's Up with Google?
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the business model, currently and in the long run? Also, is this built on top of another search engine's results?
Hey. We will work on it together with the community this year. Private mode is even more private than DDG so we will likely have to do private ads just like them. But for the personalized experience we have a few ideas that I think are more creative and more aligned with users and privacy but not fully fleshed out yet. We're still a very small team but hoping to ship them this quarter.
Care to explain how is the private mode superior to DDG and what is a purpose of a non-private mode?
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#124I have stopped using Google where possible. DDG and Bing.
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#125What’s up with Google? It’s the best search engine that’s available today, in my opinion.
It may still be the best generally but it's been on a steep decline the past few years.
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#126I've noticed in the past 2-3 months that results from StackOverflow, Wikipedia, and official programming language documentation sites seem to have been abruptly downranked. They used to typically be in the top 3 results for me for appropriate queries, but now they frequently aren't even on the first page.
It was a long time since I had to append "wikipedia" to my search results, but within the last year or so, I find myself doing it more and more.
I do that for Reddit a lot
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#127It's a trend I've noticed with other services, notably Drive and Calendar - they no longer innovate, just get a UI tweak every few years. It's very reminiscent of cash cows, which typically are resourced to just keep going at minimal expense for as long as possible. Another possibility is that the product isn't "sexy" anymore, so they are having trouble finding the great staff they need to stay at the forefront. This…
Please. No. The stuff just works. From the experience of having several critical business SaaS tools go thru constant UX changes that disrespect the user and make the product less stable, I'm actually glad Google still have some respect for the user. That's why i will gladly buy gsuite for the businesses i provide advice to, yet actively considering replacements of core business infra of which im a power user....for…
Just works? Have you tried moving a file in g drive?
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#128I feel like those discussions occur every few months on HN and here I am not noticing any degradation in search result quality. It would really help if you would at least provide some query examples.
Re: Ask HN: What's Up with Google?
#129I would like to see a search engine like Google, except without paywalled content, without PDFs, without whitepages.com type results in name searches, and without store product pages for items that are out of stock. A lot of that is repackaged public content, so the fact that they're duplicative should be a very strong negative signal. Relegate those pages to a DMOZ/Yahoo model. I think that would take care of 90% of…
What's wrong with PDFs?
Often when I am looking for something related to Maths or Science, I search, and I get nice short 8 ish pages PDFs from good unis, authored by a professor for some course.
Those PDFs are really nice.
Re: Ask HN: What's Up with Google?
#130I've noticed in the past 2-3 months that results from StackOverflow, Wikipedia, and official programming language documentation sites seem to have been abruptly downranked. They used to typically be in the top 3 results for me for appropriate queries, but now they frequently aren't even on the first page.
It was a long time since I had to append "wikipedia" to my search results, but within the last year or so, I find myself doing it more and more.
I do that for everything since a long time. And with the !Bang extension coming to Firefox, customising those searches has become easier too