I just have one question... does Netcraft officially confirm this?
Google Search Is Dying
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#392> Early adopters aren’t using Google anymore.
What are they using now?
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#393Some 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…
>Reviews are secretly paid ads.
So are a lot of Reddit comments.
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#394Disclosure: I'm the creator of Killed by Google. There are a lot of good points here about why power users (i.e. HN types, technologists, scholars/researchers, etc) find Google Search frustrating, but it doesn't really provide a balanced perspective which would acknowledge that Google Search for the average, billions-scale user is an incredibly optimized, positive experience. For those users, Google Search is doing e…
I agree with this sentiment. You can meaningfully append 'reddit' to only a fraction of actual searches.
But we should also note that HN users are the "spearhead" of adoption curve and if there is ever any meaningful alternative to Google, just by the virtue of HN users adopting it, could mean strong propagation in their social circle - the less tech savvy family members, friends and work.
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#395Their search may be dying but I’ve noticed that the “new tab” page on Chrome mobile shows links to content that are particularly relevant to me.
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#396> What if you want to know what a genuine real life human being thinks about the latest Lenovo laptop?
I'd check Amazon reviews. When was Google ever the first tool of choice for product reviews? I don't remember that era.
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#397An important thing to realize, too, is that this is a problem that keeps getting worse. The article talks about product reviews and recipes, but it's been spreading a lot further than that. Recently I was trying to look up a technical error, and found a lot of web pages that seemed to be auto-generated with "How to solve [error_scraped_from_the_web]", complete with a list of generic things unrelated to the error (IE,…
What happened to clubhouse?
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#398Earlier quoted context omitted.
> This is the most annoying behavior because I really mean what I write. Tons of people don't, though. They type whatever unprocessed half-second thought they have into Google and expect Google to lead them to the water, even if they're tugging and trying to go in the completely wrong direction. Google has optimized for working 'most of the time' for 'the most people', and that means striving for fixing the complete…
Right. Feels like it's optimized for common voice queries, in sentence form. They've sacrificed technical/HN users to focus on this.
Ask Jeeves is back, baby!
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#399I actually use the term "forum" as an additive search term. It usually goes to domain specific forums which actually contain what you look for.
I also tried googling an answer to (an apparently common bug) in Windows relating to Bluetooth connections and I have not found any non generic answers anywhere in the search results no patter what I quoted or whichever term I added. Just generic crap, that same crap copy and pasted over and over and over again and non-specific bullshit answers from Microsoft itself.
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