Yesterday on HN someone claimed that they were more or less happy with code that they wrote 10 years ago. My question, is this a brilliant senior dev that I could learn something from or a grad student that doesn't know what they don't know? My impression is that 2015 could answer this question but 2022 google can not.
Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
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Re: Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
#122I share the view that Google SERPS have dropped in quality the last 5-7 years. Of great annoyance to me is the amateurish way that a search results page will find relevant Twitter results but then clicking on the results takes you to the root page of the Twitter user and not the result. Since many Twitterers are prolific posters, it can be very time-consuming or even impossible to find the result listed. Thankfully I…
The same happens with image search. Google is just broken in this regard.
Re: Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
#123search for clam antivirus:
Google first link: https://alternativeto.net/software/clam-antivirus/
DuckDuckGo first link: http://www.clamav.net/
i don't understand why the search result, first link is alternativeto instead of clamav home page
Re: Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
#124If you search for anything political on Google, you'll notice that the results are clearly slanted in one direction, towards the opinion of a handful of pre-approved news outlets. This leads me to seek alternatives whenever I need neutral sources, for instance Yahoo search.
Oh give it a rest.
OP is not wrong
Re: Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
#125The article mostly talks about IA (instant answers) which are notoriously hard. The recent advances in machine learning have made the technology more approachable, so startups like Kagi Search (disclaimer: founder) can also leverage latest advances in NLP and compete on this ground. To give just a few examples: Query 1: how many stars in the usa flag Google: https://cln.sh/63sVzh Kagi: https://cln.sh/bFEHsD Pretty su…
Weird, two of those queries are right for me:
Query 1: https://imgur.com/6cy3jBg.png
Query 2: https://i.imgur.com/MLF8jpT.png
The third query is wrong for me too, though.
Re: Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
#126When I search for "databricks series b valuation" in Google (from Argentina, using Google.com in English) result #6 is: "Python get value from database - Büro Jorge Schmidt", which judging by title and preview seems to be a Python + MySQL tutorial. It returns a 403 error and might be a hacked site, since the home page is for a graphic design studio in Munich. Result #8 is something similar: "Intellij flatten packages…
I just tried that search, all of the results look relevant and I definitely don't get any of the results you are getting. I wonder if you have some malware that is hijacking the results? I once had some malware (chrome extension) that was corrupting my search results. It was surprisingly difficult to remove (given that it was a chrome extension...).
adding another datapoint, I could only find the results the OP was returning in the 10th page (~100th result)
Re: Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
#127The article mostly talks about IA (instant answers) which are notoriously hard. The recent advances in machine learning have made the technology more approachable, so startups like Kagi Search (disclaimer: founder) can also leverage latest advances in NLP and compete on this ground. To give just a few examples: Query 1: how many stars in the usa flag Google: https://cln.sh/63sVzh Kagi: https://cln.sh/bFEHsD Pretty su…
Don't be "fair", instant answers have been useless misinformation in every instance I've triggered them. And they've been broken for years.
No one at Google is responsible for these half baked and largely irrelevant widgets or wants to stake their career fixing them.
Re: Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
#128search for clam antivirus: Google first link: https://alternativeto.net/software/clam-antivirus/ DuckDuckGo first link: http://www.clamav.net/ i don't understand why the search result, first link is alternativeto instead of clamav home page
For me, google gets it right. It’s their personalization.
Re: Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
#129search for clam antivirus: Google first link: https://alternativeto.net/software/clam-antivirus/ DuckDuckGo first link: http://www.clamav.net/ i don't understand why the search result, first link is alternativeto instead of clamav home page
I dont understand how you people are getting bad results. My first link for clam antivirus is clamav.net. And the remainder on the first page are download links and wikipedia links about clamav.
I'm not sure if you you people are trolling or what.
Re: Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It seems weird to me that Google would take "search quality" seriously for 15+ years (including nearly a decade as one of the biggest companies in the world) and then suddenly stop. Is anybody claiming that it’s sudden? Everybody I’ve seen complain about Google search results has seemed to think that it’s been getting slowly worse over a long period of time.
I don’t think google search has gotten worse, I think the SEO abusers have just started winning. So much content on the web is automatically generated and made to look just like real hand crafted content. So much of it has titles and headings which have little relation to the search. I was recently searching for a piece of ceramic cookware, specifically looking to avoid non stick coatings. And google search showed me…
I know another possible explanation, way simpler.
Vast majority of these SEO abusers are monetized through google ads. For every advertisement dollar spent through google, google takes 30-50%. And 80% of Google's income is from internet ads.
I would be surprised if google's search quality would not deteriorate - they have very strong incentive for that.