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>Citation Needed nice way to invalidate my whole argument
If you want to present an extreme figure and are unwilling to back it up with even anecdotes, you don't have an argument
What really, really bugs me is what they did with the image search at some point. I always used image search to try and find the original source of an Image. It's super useful to determine the authenticity of a news article, identify the author of a photo for licensing and a million other uses. Then at some point, search by image started to simply return results based on the image classification tag on the image: so…
The "must include" functionality makes zero sense to me and I'm dumbfounded as to why it was ever added. If I didn't want my results to include a particular word, I wouldn't have included it in the search. Boggles my mind how Google could mess up something so simple.
It seems just stupid to return these completely useless results but I guess it makes them money somehow.
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They have a Verbatim mode which doesn't do that (as much?), but you have to click on Tools → All Results → Verbatim every time. Alternatively, if you can edit the URL used by your browser, you can just add "tbs=li:1" to it; for Firefox, you can add it as an alternative Search engine by running this on the Console: window.external.AddSearchProvider("https://gist.githubusercontent.com/popthestack/1530165/raw/c99a1c5e6e…
Yeah, I used to have verbatim mode as a separate and default search provider in Firefox, but I had to stop using it as my default -- I find sometimes it's just too verbatim and it's like using Altavista in 1996 all over again. I feel like Google a few years ago had struck a decent balance between trying to be smart (sometimes automatically including synonyms to your search terms, etc.) while still respecting your act…
(I know of firstround search and I think this is the best you can get. I was thinking there should be a website that aggregates articles linked on twitter by people from VC/founders world, but I don't think there is one sadly)
I'm seeing my search results show less and less of what I'm looking for, it's like google search is forgetting how it used to work.
The same with SEO, I'm seeing sites ranking again on the first page that have useless content using all the tricks/ghosts of SEO past. It seems all the legacy SEO hacks/tricks filters that had been in place at Google have been removed recently.
I was a huge fan of Google, but I'm definitely seeing a decline in quality of the SERP.