Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022

Post by bspammer » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 10:20 AM UTC

IAmEveryone wrote: post #92

ramoz wrote: post #25

When I search “tim lee food blogger age” Google actually shows results with “age” striked out (so it shows top results as if age wasn’t part of the queried string). Trying to think why/how it’d conclude that age wasn’t necessary for good results.

It no longer does this because now your comment is the only result for the query. Before, it could not find a single result, said as much, and gave you the wikipedia page that included the age. What's wrong with that, again?

Post by daniel-cussen » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 10:25 AM UTC

Post by krageon » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 10:27 AM UTC

kreeben wrote: post #201

pjc50 wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There is so much stuff on the Internet it's easy to start thinking there is guaranteed to be good results for any search, and that just doesn't seem to be the case. I'm increasingly of the opinion that Google (the advertising engine) has destroyed Google (the search engine), by the two step process of making it profitable to produce blogspam then forcing search to remove blogspam - and a lot of the useful content h…

>> Google can't search inside Discord. Can anyone, even in theory? Are there open APIs to all systems of discord? Does Discord have one? Wouldn't that open up all of these systems to systematic classification of all users? Also, is there a web link you can construct that will open up e.g. Discord's desktop app when you click it?

Post by grumbel » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 10:28 AM UTC

planb wrote: post #186

greyman wrote: post #172

I don't know if search is deteriorating as a whole, but certain searches seems to be manipulated for political reasons. The famous example is an Image search of "white couple" - really, try it, it is like only 50% correct. But I don't believe the image search itself would be that bad, rather certain queries are given manipulated results.

You're overestimating the smarts of google: Image search does not classify image contents. It uses the site text for ranking of the images on that site. It finds lots of "Black And White Couple Stock Photo" images - the image description in fact contains the string "white couple".

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 10:36 AM UTC

zmachinaz wrote: post #159

The article totally misses the point. Yes, for the digital morons (their turks) google may work perfectly fine. However, for people who actually look for real content google gets worse and worse. All the good material gets far lower ranking than the repetitive low quality medium posts with identical and non-existing content.