I was told then, not to use a direct Google search, but was a naughty boy and knew would be broken for a long time...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28224730
And you hope the rest will get fixed?
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#22Not for work though, if I search "3 way solenoid valve" or "food safe stainless steel" I get good results. Sure, I have to scroll past a few ads but the cost of running the thing doesn't come out of my pocket.
For other stuff, yeah, Google is in pretty sad shape. I remember how exciting Google was when it was first created, those days are long gone.
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#23It's already dead. Google mined all the links that were curated by the initial internet communities for all it was worth and turned them into profits for Google's earliest employees and shareholders. Now that no one is curating useful links anymore their search quality, unsurprisingly, is deteriorating. Without human curation there is no signal for Google to use anymore and whatever signal is there is just SEO spam that is optimized for serving ads. It's like an ouroboros eating its own tail.
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#24I moved to DDG a few years back and don't miss Google. While it is possible that Google might have provided similar results to what DDG did for the same query, I have noticed that when DDG fails to provide good results, Google fails with it.
And the author is right about appending the site name to the query (reddit etc). Sometimes, it is the only way to avoid the crap that the search engine would otherwise provide.
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#25The passive voice in the headline buries the lede.
What's really happening: Google is strangling the golden search goose for a quick meal.
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#26Why I use duckduckgo
I still find that DDG's programming related results are limited and often resort to using the Google command to find what DDG couldn't.
They sift thru that and give about what you want. I just tried it - 'modelling clay'. Google's 3rd page (after many paid ads) has what DDG has on top after a disambiguating a/b/c box to help you know what you're looking at.
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#27Google had this coming.
At a certain point, good is good enough. At that point, it's a matter of time before the competition catches up.
Also, they let their algorithm degrade, making it even easier for the competition.
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#28Thanks for this article. Adding to other "Google is dying" discussions that I have collected over time as part of my personal research: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cSMY5wXSKhJdMxeJEvTUJ21e...
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#29Some really good thoughts here. I'll summarize the ones that hit me: - "Why are people searching Reddit specifically? The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust." This is it for me exactly. I search for the following kinds of things on Reddit exactly because results on other sites aren't trustworthy: Reviews are secretl…
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#30Although I don't use Reddit that much I must say Reddit is diamond in the rough; communities are super helpful and unlike Facebook it is not walled garden plus you don't have to use your real name. It still needs work and improvement but I really like Reddit.