Ask HN: Have your search results gotten worse recently?

True ;)

But the current situation is like "Out of the frying pan and into the fire"

I was using ChatGPT first then when Bing Copilot was released, I turned to it only to find out, it was even dumber and needed more prompting and there comes the prompt length

I prefer using the HN search engine instead..

Yes, the new changes have effected things a lot.

If it’s not on Reddit I can’t find it might as well not exist. I can’t find any info elsewhere

My search experience has been the same always, just fine. I exclusively use Google and will switch my default search to Google even if it isn't (such as on raspberry pi OS where the default is DDG). To get anything of value, I have always first looked towards physical books and I spend most of my time at the public library. If I want the news, I turn to the physical printed editions of the newspaper that are updated each day at the library. For example, my last Google search a few minutes ago I looked for the iPhone 7 MSRP and release date and had no issues getting this information from google. I am left confused about these posts because they lack specific examples to better understand where you're coming from. I've always seen the comments about how people do site:reddit.com but I've never felt the need to do so either

The auto-complete on Google often has "reddit" at the end of the query. It usually is the most reliable result from a query.