Has search gotten worse?

[Michael Jacks0n]

Jay from RedLetterMedia tried to reverse image search a photo of a famous AIIIIDS campaigner in the latest Wheel of the Worst episode....
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That's what happened with me when I tried to find Tinder catfish accounts. Google reverse image search used to be sophisticated enough to pull up Facebook profiles of girls solely from phone screenshots of Tinder bios. Yandex is a mixed bag of Russian porn results, and PimEyes charges money for mixed results.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Youtube is so fucking gimped with their searches that whenever I search for something now, I no longer get results relevant to the search itself but suggestions mixed in with popular videos of the moment, all fucking nonsense garbage that has nothing to do with what I'm looking for, only the top one or two results have anything to do with what I'm looking for.

 

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Found this from a video of a dude talking about Duck Duck Go going to shit; but Google Image Search, "Blonde Braids."

Then count how long it takes you to find a white girl.

Pretty simple, white women have "blonde braided" hair. "Braids" are for niggers

 

[ditto]

Youtube is so fucking gimped with their searches

I'm been using DuckDuckGo with the !v hashbang to search for exact title matches. Better search results but sometimes the order seems completely random.

 

[BiggerChungus]

Sometimes I think so but then I remember back when everything was just an ad, scam link, popup, etc.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Sometimes I think so but then I remember back when everything was just an ad, scam link, popup, etc.

Yep. By the early '00s, it seemed the internet was being taken over by ads.

Then popup blocking came, searching got good, and ad-blockers were also in.

Now it's endless Current Year with "smart" algorithms and crazy censorship.

 

[Plaintiff is fat]

women divisions showing up above real sports now

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I found out about GN-z11 (a galaxy about 30 billion light years away), which is named that way because it has a redshift of "z = 11". I wanted to look up what that means, or how the redshift scale works (like at what z does green light get redshifted to red).

But because it's Current Year, it seems the only results I could find were just articles explaining what redshift is to "normies", "normie-tier" popular science articles going "WOW! VERY DISTANT GALAXY FOUND!", or the Wikipedia article on GN-z11 I already saw.

This may be getting kind of annoying...

 

[args]

I hate it that adding quotes to a query isn't consistent. I thought their purpose to make sure a keyword is 100% included in the results, but I'm still getting unrelated results.
This is especially bad when looking for info on niche topics and I don't understand why they can't just tell me that there are no more results that match the search and instead show random garbage.

 

[craven rutherfordium]

I found out about GN-z11 (a galaxy about 30 billion light years away), which is named that way because it has a redshift of "z = 11". I wanted to look up what that means, or how the redshift scale works (like at what z does green light get redshifted to red).

But because it's Current Year, it seems the only results I could find were just articles explaining what redshift is to "normies", "normie-tier" popular science articles going "WOW! VERY DISTANT GALAXY FOUND!", or the Wikipedia article on GN-z11 I already saw.

This may be getting kind of annoying...

A good source for this sort of thing used to be the sites that academics put up on their university webspace directory. The sites were created by people who were motivated by the desire to share something about their interests and not by the prospect of ad revenue.

In addition to the search engine problems we've been discussing in this thread, it's no longer a straightforward process to get a university webspace account and publish a website. Universities are concerned with maintaining a cohesively branded web presence and ugly html tables of physical constants just ain't it.

 

[Amerimutt]

I can tell you that it used to be easier to search for organic web pages especially when it came to conspiracy theories and stuff like that. Now the only results you get are mainstream sites attempting to debunk them. I miss being able to find those independent sites run by some boomer and those sites are still active they just aren't shown on Google or you have to go to the 20th page whereas they used to be on the 1st or 2nd.

 

[Dededon't]

Youtube has definitely been shit with the search results lately. What annoys me the most is that if you search up any current event, you will be bombarded with news channel after news channel. I recall testing this by searching "russia" about a week after the ukraine conflict started. I scrolled for about 6-7 minutes and couldn't find a single video that wasn't from a news channel. I know this is largely due to Google owning the site, but it just defeats the original purpose of Youtube. Might as well call it Tube at this point.

 

[Amerimutt]

Youtube has definitely been shit with the search results lately. What annoys me the most is that if you search up any current event, you will be bombarded with news channel after news channel. I recall testing this by searching "russia" about a week after the ukraine conflict started. I scrolled for about 6-7 minutes and couldn't find a single video that wasn't from a news channel. I know this is largely due to Google owning the site, but it just defeats the original purpose of Youtube. Might as well call it Tube at this point.

YouTube results have been bad since 2017. Again when it comes to conspiracies or alternative views only the mainstream channels show up or big YouTubers trying to "debunk" them. You used to get a lot of independent channels showing up on YouTube in fact they tended to be the only channels talking about such things.

 

[Dededon't]

YouTube results have been bad since 2017. Again when it comes to conspiracies or alternative views only the mainstream channels show up or big YouTubers trying to "debunk" them. You used to get a lot of independent channels showing up on YouTube in fact they tended to be the only channels talking about such things.

Yeah, you're not wrong. I've been on the site since 2006 and have witnessed its downward spiral in real time. It's rather soul crushing, considering it was once among my top five websites.

 

[SSJGPUAR]

There is no way in hell Quora is making enough revenue to genuinely have earned its way into the top result for every single google search. I want to find the billionare asshole who decided to make that astroturfing happen and feed them alive to one of those big snakes.

 

[Amerimutt]

There is no way in hell Quora is making enough revenue to genuinely have earned its way into the top result for every single google search. I want to find the billionare asshole who decided to make that astroturfing happen and feed them alive to one of those big snakes.

Quora is a strange one. I didn't even know the site existed until a few years ago it started popping up in the 3rd of 4th position in almost every google search. It's like it came out from no-where and it's shittier than Reddit. It's full of people trying to be a smartarse giving garbage answers and even more pathetic is you have to pay to see answers from some people. I don't know who the hell would want to pay to get shit answers from random retards on the internet. I wish it would stop showing up in all my search results.

 

[seri0us]

I used Quora for a little bit a few years ago because I found a lot of the personal anecdotes amusing.

 

[ditto]

Has anyone scored an invite to the new search engine Kagi?

Kagi's mission is to humanize the web, by making it more a web of creativity and self-expression and less a web of ad-tech and user tracking.

Kagi is currently Kagi Search, a fast, private search engine, and Orion Browser, a fast, zero-telemetry browser. We plan to release an email service as well, creating a platform to experience the web in a private, secure and unbiased way.

The beta is free but they'll be charging $10/month when it goes live (which seems suicidal ngl)
They're also doing a macOS-only browser. Makes me think their exit plan is to get acquired by Apple.

 

[Miller]

I guess Google has finally killed its image search engine. There's Yandex, sure, but sometimes it says that a picture uploaded isn't a jpeg or png despite being a jpeg or a png. Are there more alternatives out there?

Jay from RedLetterMedia tried to reverse image search a photo of a famous AIIIIDS campaigner in the latest Wheel of the Worst episode....
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It's also funny when you use a picture of a tranny and you get "woman".

 

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I guess Google has finally killed its image search engine. There's Yandex, sure, but sometimes it says that a picture uploaded isn't a jpeg or png despite being a jpeg or a png. Are there more alternatives out there?

You will often see URLs that have 'gif' or 'jpeg' in the URL, but are actually processed to webp (especially if there's a ? in the URL). You can always just copy the image content to your local PC and save it as a human file format and upload to Yandex.