RIP Google, a ‘Search Engine’ from 1998-2018

Post by searchmartin » Sun, Mar 18, 2018, 2:44 PM UTC

kazinator wrote: post #11

> Right now, example queries that no longer return real results include (but may not be limited to): [...] > [...] km to miles [...] > while these searches don’t trigger third party organic results, they DO trigger ads: Whaaaat? I just tried "km to miles". While the built-in km to miles converter gadget does appear at the top, there are actual search results below that. Pages and pages of non-ad results. The first bu…

Post by searchmartin » Sun, Mar 18, 2018, 4:25 PM UTC

gus_massa wrote: post #7

matthewmacleod wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure it is clickbait. Previously, typing things into Google would result in a list of webpages that matched the phrase you typed in, with various ambiguity around that to allow for flexibility. Now it doesn't do that, by default. Yeah, there's button to do it, so it's not like anybody can't access the results anymore. But certainly from the perspective of the first experience, this is a huge change . Assuming…

They show whatever they want to show. For example see https://www.google.com/search?q=matemathica If you search for "matemathica" they will show the results of "mathematica" instead, and offer to search for the original word. Sometimes they mix the results of the original word and the autocorrected version. Sometimes they show the results of the original and offer to show the results of the autocorrection.