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Maybe take a look at some search alternatives like DuckDuckGo or YaCy.
Has anyone found that recently Google search is becoming more and more useless? Google tends to ignore what I actually type in, and tries to search according to some weird NLP machine learning inference on what it thinks I'm actually trying to ask. Top results will include maybe 50-75% of the words I actually typed in, and it will treat the rest as mere hints or related words. My queries end up looking like this afte…
also top results tend to be from sites trying to sell something.
which makes sense because businesses can hire SEO consultants and spend their resources getting google to show them in the top results.
however people who just put stuff up and leave up for free don't hire SEO consultants.
Has anyone found that recently Google search is becoming more and more useless? Google tends to ignore what I actually type in, and tries to search according to some weird NLP machine learning inference on what it thinks I'm actually trying to ask. Top results will include maybe 50-75% of the words I actually typed in, and it will treat the rest as mere hints or related words. My queries end up looking like this afte…
Has anyone found that recently Google search is becoming more and more useless? Google tends to ignore what I actually type in, and tries to search according to some weird NLP machine learning inference on what it thinks I'm actually trying to ask. Top results will include maybe 50-75% of the words I actually typed in, and it will treat the rest as mere hints or related words. My queries end up looking like this afte…
I've noticed over the past year that a Google search for almost any medical term will bury the wikipedia article on the third or fourth page of search results. The first three pages are all sites with extremely watered-down content and little to none of the cross-referencing links that make wikipedia a good exploratory tool (and a natural fit to PageRank). Google has obviously decided that anyone searching for a medi…
I'm all in on DuckduckGo. No longer doing !g as I don't accept the Google privacy policy (although I have peaked behind the popup using Ublock)
Has anyone found that recently Google search is becoming more and more useless? Google tends to ignore what I actually type in, and tries to search according to some weird NLP machine learning inference on what it thinks I'm actually trying to ask. Top results will include maybe 50-75% of the words I actually typed in, and it will treat the rest as mere hints or related words. My queries end up looking like this afte…
Can we create a github repo with examples? I believe dev experience using Google is going really downhill.
news.google.com -> Democratic debate
Websites:
BBC, Vox, Guardian, NYT, WaPo, CNN, Slate (wow), The New Yorker, USA Today
Absent:
National Review, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, reason, Forbes, RT
So basically the news algorithm considers these kinds of stories high quality:
1) Stephen Colbert plays Democrat Drinking Game (NYT)
No Greg Gutfeld sketch ?
2) Funniest one-liners at the Democratic Debate (CNN)
3) Where was Mayor Pete Buttgeig at the Debate? (NYT)
4) OPINION: Winners and Losers of the Democratic Debate (NYT)
actually has the word opinion in the title
5) Who won the Democratic Debate? Texas. (NYT)
I think there ought to be more representation from right-leaning organizations
Has anyone found that recently Google search is becoming more and more useless? Google tends to ignore what I actually type in, and tries to search according to some weird NLP machine learning inference on what it thinks I'm actually trying to ask. Top results will include maybe 50-75% of the words I actually typed in, and it will treat the rest as mere hints or related words. My queries end up looking like this afte…
It's difficult to imagine that most of the people haven't seen this a bunch of times as well.
And while I agree with this, I'd love to know why people keep asking and/or upvoting this same question over and over. Is it for the sole purpose of bashing Google or what is it? Honest question.
Has anyone found that recently Google search is becoming more and more useless? Google tends to ignore what I actually type in, and tries to search according to some weird NLP machine learning inference on what it thinks I'm actually trying to ask. Top results will include maybe 50-75% of the words I actually typed in, and it will treat the rest as mere hints or related words. My queries end up looking like this afte…
Absolutely-— for a year or two now. These days, if I have success with even a mildly technical Google search, it’s because I’ve enclosed every single term in quotation marks and/or turned on verbatim search, which doesn’t even work that well. Google is trying so hard to think for you that they’re ruining their core product.
Further, I see there's now an option to disable "relevant" (personalized) searches.
https://www.google.com/preferences
"Private results
Private results help find more relevant content for you, including content and connections that only you can see."
Followed by checkbox.
The linked explainer suggests the "relevant" (personalized) search is informed by your activity with other Google products. Skeptical me thinks that's hardly the whole story.
"Search results from your Google products" https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1710607
Either way, I may try google search for a while, see if there's any benefit over DDG.
For everyone who complains about Google having worse results, have you blocked or disabled Google's tracking? I haven't and haven't had any trouble finding things with Google and I wonder if the two are related in some way.
In some ways that might be true. But I also wonder if google is using tracking/profiling as kind of a crutch. A while ago, I had google forget about all the things I had searched for. I then wanted to look up some features of C++17, but google kept coming up with info about the C-17 Globemaster instead. Rather than just searching for my terms explicitly, it tried to interpret what I wanted, and failed miserably witho…
I did the search just now and every single result on the first page was about C++17. (I am logged-out with Noscript, Ghostery, adblock enabled). They might have fixed it?