How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?
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#2I don't trust Google's search results right now. Not because they've blurred the line between ads and results (although that certainly makes the situation much worse), but because I don't tend to get very good results from Google search.
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#3I don't trust Google's search results right now. Not because they've blurred the line between ads and results (although that certainly makes the situation much worse), but because I don't tend to get very good results from Google search.
Who do you use? I use Bing and like it, but I also used to work there.
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#4I've actually moved to other search engines because the quality of the results have gone down dramatically. It seems like google will fixate on one or two keywords in my search (usually the most generic ones) and ignore the rest. In addition, the old google tricks like using quotes for literal values no longer seems to work. It is like google is guessing what I want, rather than trying to find what I have entered as a query.
I don't know if this is because SEO has poisoned their index, or if I'm not googling "correctly" anymore.
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#5I don't trust Google's search results right now. Not because they've blurred the line between ads and results (although that certainly makes the situation much worse), but because I don't tend to get very good results from Google search.
Who do you use? I use Bing and like it, but I also used to work there.
Not sure about everyone else but google is a proxy for other sites now where I can get relevant answers. So I have 2 clicks to the eventual site instead of 1. Similar to using site:www.reddit.com or something similar. I realize that's still using Google as a search engine but it is different than how I previously used it.
Thinking briefly on it, the main thing I leverage Google for is phonebook like information or getting a quick definition/spellcheck.
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#6I don't trust Google's search results right now. Not because they've blurred the line between ads and results (although that certainly makes the situation much worse), but because I don't tend to get very good results from Google search.
Who do you use? I use Bing and like it, but I also used to work there.
I have good results with DuckDuckGo.
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#7Google has removed favicons from search in an attempt to de-adsify their results. I don't think it's gonna work, I think with the latest change they've brought to light stuff most of the people using Google didn't even think about.
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#8Why even show ads? Perhaps, it would be easier to just have Alphabet spawning a company doing SEO that triggers the right strings of the Google page ranking algorithm, thus successfully putting stuff on top of search. Google still receives money, but no specific "this is an Ad" needed. At least, in that universe that would be no question on whether we can trust in "no-Ad" section of the results.
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#9You can remove some bias by using startpage.com but it won't eliminate SEO.
Maybe Yandex?
Re: How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?
#10I've actually moved to other search engines because the quality of the results have gone down dramatically. It seems like google will fixate on one or two keywords in my search (usually the most generic ones) and ignore the rest. In addition, the old google tricks like using quotes for literal values no longer seems to work. It is like google is guessing what I want, rather than trying to find what I have entered as…
They are definitely trying to guess what you are searching for.
One thing that drives me crazy is that they assume all of your searches are geographically or linguistically "local", they don't have an international search mode where the most relevant result in the world shows up.