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Google Search Is Dying

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Re: Google Search Is Dying

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Post by worldsayshi »

Buttons840 wrote: post #295
valdiorn wrote: post #38

Google used to be really, really good at finding exactly what I told it to find. Nowadays, it's turned into the yellow pages; sponsored content from businesses trying to sell me goods and services. Can people suggest good alternatives or search patterns for certain categories of information or search types? Some of the search patterns I currently I use: * Youtube for product reviews and demos, entertainment, music an…

Since there's only a handful of sites you target your searches at, it would be nice if you could just have your own search engine that focuses on those few sites, and perhaps crawls a little deeper. I've sometimes thought the death of Google will be the self hosted search engine.

Hard to find a business model for a self hosted search engine though.

Re: Google Search Is Dying

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Post by Trung0246 »

brimble wrote: post #5

The other day I was searching for a specific kind of jewelry and realized I don't know of a search engine that can do what I needed, which is to just find good results for my search. Searches for jewelry-related keywords triggered Google to go 90+% ads, and their results (and other search engines' results) were so junked up with spam and the same couple sites over and over that they were useless. We're back to the We…

Usually I've search for "gemology terms" or "gem cut types" first then I've mix and match those keyword until I get desired result

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Post by gotbeans »

I'm almost happy to see this for the wrong reasons. For the past few months I don't know how many times I've complained about the dire state of Gsearch.

For every single search, I have to consistently scroll one page down to skip ads and product matches ala "google shopping" belt. It's just insane.

Re: Google Search Is Dying

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Post by lhorie »

The irony for me is that Google had a Reddit before Reddit was a thing, it was called Orkut and it was glorious. You could create communities based on whatever the heck you wanted and connect with friends and strangers alike through any twist on any topic you could think of.

But Google being Google, it didn't see the potential because Orkut didn't achieve global dominance (despite being the social media platform in places like Brazil and India at the time). Google's obsession with AI-fying the crap out of its business will likely end up being its downfall now that it's proving to be increasingly ineffective against the SEO-motivated players, who now have an enormously diverse toolkit to game the coveted first SERPs, from black hat to downright paying right into Google's pockets to get their way.

Re: Google Search Is Dying

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Post by baby »

That’s why I think reddit, facebook, stack overflow, and others will replace Google at some point. It makes more sense to search through user discussions than a register

Re: Google Search Is Dying

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Post by hintymad »

softwarebeware wrote: post #6

Some 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…

> This is it for me exactly.

This is for me exactly too. Search "best XXX for YYY", and I get back two pages of dubious websites that smell like paid ads a mile away.

Re: Google Search Is Dying

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Post by [deleted] »

softwarebeware wrote: post #6

Some 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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Re: Google Search Is Dying

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Post by jpicard »

eloeffler wrote: post #60
softwarebeware wrote: post #6

Some 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…

About the "dead internet conspiracy" - I've worked in writing how-to articles for a fairly large "help" website. They paid very little attention to the quality of the articles. I was paid for each piece and thus had about 30 minutes to write an article and later integrate feedback from internal review. Otherwise the payment became too low. The most important factor was cramming SEO terms and links to keep people on t…

Bloomberg and other news orgs publish bot-assisted articles, for example to summarize financial reports the moment they appear.

https://archive.fo/1EjSu

Re: Google Search Is Dying

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Post by samstave »

technothrasher wrote: post #370
samstave wrote: post #339

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any idea what reddit's valuation is currently looking like? I have long been surprised they havent been acquired .. I assume for sure they have had plenty of offerss in the past

They were acquired by Condé Nast in 2006.

Oh, forgot about that... Thanks

Are they still under them?

regardless, what is reddit's current value? (I've been on reddit for 15 years - but I have recently deleted my accounts due to censorship and ban-hammering for the most ridiculous reasons.)

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