Recently, it's seemed that Google has failed to find answers for information I've been seeking. Even using keyword search, it's been returning very poor informative information. Has anyone else experienced this lately? Thanks for your input.
Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?
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Re: Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?
#2Yes. I've been finding myself resorting to other search engines. Especially regarding things that remotely have anything to do with political hot button topics in the US.
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?
#3It happen to me few times. Apparently no one ever has the same problem as me before. This happen super rarely and I'm proud of it.
Did you receive your 'search not found' badge?
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?
#4Absolutely agree. Search results are now heavily biased toward popular categories that have advertising opportunities. Double quotes and logic (and) isn’t working to drive more specific results. I am about to move on.
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?
#5Yes. I've been finding myself resorting to other search engines. Especially regarding things that remotely have anything to do with political hot button topics in the US.
Google has become a curated search engine. It's no longer finding data based on your enquiry. It's hiding the results from the companies and website that don't buy Google ads, or spend every waking moment on black hat games.
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?
#6Yes. I've especially had terrible luck finding pages I remember visiting before. This made me wish they hadn't gotten rid of full text history search in the browser.
So now I try to save important stuff as markdown notes so I can search them with vscode later.
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?
#7To head off any misunderstandings, what time period do you mean by "lately"? Past few hours? Days? Years?
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?
#8I've been struggling with context. I fight for Google to know I'm talking about Rust the language and not the game or the oxidization.
"Rust Vector Drain" really struggled today.
I'm a bit surprised that Google isn't prepared to remember context. "User has been looking at a lot of Rust Lang so let's promote those kinds of results"
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?
#9Between the search engine getting worse over the past few years, and the failings of the history/search built into Chrome, and the loss of RSS and Delicio.us a while ago, the web seems to be less and less useful as time progresses.
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?
#10The worse now is email search in gmail.
It used to be very efficient, but now, if you don't type the exact word in full with the exact spelling, it will not find it.
The most annoying is sometimes when you only remember half of a name or first name that you are looking for. (Note: assuming that it is not in your contact list already)