PageRank is based on conectivity so the gibberish content needs to be linked to by other highly ranked content to become an issue.
Ask HN: Are AI language models making search engines unusable for you too?
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Re: Ask HN: Are AI language models making search engines unusable for you too?
#12It’s very subjective, but I feel this too. It’s like in adding ML, search has sacrificed precision.
For example, adding ‘-‘ no longer seems to work for excluding terms. Yesterday I searched for “digital agency” and then “digital agency -marketing”. The latter had 3x more results than the former.
Google can be great when I don’t quite know the right term for what I’m looking for, but often when I need something very specific I get nowhere.
Re: Ask HN: Are AI language models making search engines unusable for you too?
#13It’s very subjective, but I feel this too. It’s like in adding ML, search has sacrificed precision. For example, adding ‘-‘ no longer seems to work for excluding terms. Yesterday I searched for “digital agency” and then “digital agency -marketing”. The latter had 3x more results than the former. Google can be great when I don’t quite know the right term for what I’m looking for, but often when I need something very s…
The - symbol does still work, I think you need to place it outside of the quotes though.
I just got 29m results for
"digital agency"
"digital agency" -marketingRe: Ask HN: Are AI language models making search engines unusable for you too?
#14It’s very subjective, but I feel this too. It’s like in adding ML, search has sacrificed precision. For example, adding ‘-‘ no longer seems to work for excluding terms. Yesterday I searched for “digital agency” and then “digital agency -marketing”. The latter had 3x more results than the former. Google can be great when I don’t quite know the right term for what I’m looking for, but often when I need something very s…
The - symbol does still work, I think you need to place it outside of the quotes though. I just got 29m results for "digital agency" And 14m results for "digital agency" -marketing
The Google Search team officially considers -, "", and so forth to be optional signals from the user. I find Google ignoring - with pretty high frequency.