Has search gotten worse?

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Is the quality of web search results getting worse?

  • Yes

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  • No

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Just log in. Yandex never gives me CAPTCHAs. Using google is just as tedious without an account, and I’m sure other search engines are equally reluctant to let you use them for free. The account is how you pay them, at least yandex actually searches instead of just giving you utterly unhelpful ad results.
 
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snov said:
Just log in. Yandex never gives me CAPTCHAs. Using google is just as tedious without an account, and I’m sure other search engines are equally reluctant to let you use them for free. The account is how you pay them, at least yandex actually searches instead of just giving you utterly unhelpful ad results.
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I don't have a Google account either, and I always use private and adblocked browsing but Google only does it to me on TOR. Yandex is kinda worse with his. The results are better, and I think it still have an edge in reverse image search.
 
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If one searches "cure for autism" on Google, this may be at the top:

It is not an illness and there is no cure. If you're autistic, a GP or local autism team may suggest approaches that can help you to: develop daily living skills. develop communication skills.

Treatments that are not recommended for autism - NHS​

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So right off the bat there's BS "social engineering" to try to BS people into thinking autism is "diversity" rather than disability?
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
If one searches "cure for autism" on Google, this may be at the top:

It is not an illness and there is no cure. If you're autistic, a GP or local autism team may suggest approaches that can help you to: develop daily living skills. develop communication skills.​

Treatments that are not recommended for autism - NHS​



So right off the bat there's BS "social engineering" to try to BS people into thinking autism is "diversity" rather than disability?
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I think the worst part of Google, is the totally obvious bias they have. If you look up anything controversial or political, you will just get the most dumb propaganda imaginable. Google is acting as a publisher and curator for the Internet.

If this was the 90s, and I was smart I would try making a search engine where you can filter shit. Imagine a search engine where you can just not see newspapers etc, without having to manually remove like 120 seperate sites with the search operators.
 
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Toolbox said:
Advertisement, SEO abuse, and just general censorship by search aggregators have run absolutely rampant over the past several years. It doesn't help that terrible mass media conglomerates are favored by major search engine companies, especially Google.
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you can sort of circumvent SEO with something like millionshort
 
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Brave search is such a letdown.

According to the summary that is given on the top about KF is "Online forum for organised trolling, harassment and stalking".

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Not exactly search, but I've noticed over the past year Google Maps has gotten increasingly retarded in the routes it presents. It often telling me there's a faster route that saves 20 minutes when it's obviously not faster. After I reject the suggested faster route, it will show it as being actually 15 minutes slower, or whatever. One time I literally watched the number in the bubble count from -20 to +18 minutes. Because you know, I really want to be on the road for an extra 18 fucking minutes.

It's really annoying when it keeps pestering me about the supposed faster route over and over again.

I strongly suspect they've stuck some AI bullshit in there.

Hey, Pajeets! Give me something that actually fucking works. I'll even throw you a couple specks of Jewgold dust if it really fucking works.
 
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alpha889boba said:
I'm pretty sure its using current traffic congestion to determine what route is fastest at the current time. Still fucking annoying when I look up routes weeks in advanced and the route it gives me is retarted.
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Well yeah, it's been doing that for years now using location data from millions of Android phones. That works fairly decently.

Usually when it is having the issue, I'm the middle of nowhere and it wants me to leave a 70mph interstate and drive a longer route on a 55mph state highway. Every single time there's no traffic on the interstate route, and a minute or two after I ignore the "faster route" it shows it as being a slower route (no shit, Sherlock). I also have avoid tolls and prefer economy route both turned off. It makes no sense. I've never seen this behavior prior to the AI arms race that started with ChatGPT, which is why I figured they tried to "make it better" aka fucked it up with AI.
 
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Gargamel said:
Not exactly search, but I've noticed over the past year Google Maps has gotten increasingly retarded in the routes it presents. It often telling me there's a faster route that saves 20 minutes when it's obviously not faster.
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there is a route that gets reccommended to me all the time that the township stopped maintaining in the 40s and is completely overgrown , i understand this feeling.
 
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Is there a way to exclude AI images from google search? Basic shit such as adding -ai doesn't cut it.
 
recently ive been getting messages at the bottom of my search results like this:


there articles dedicated to helping people who get lumped in with omitted results by mistake, makes me wonder what they use to decide what is and isn't considered 'repetitive content'

this was especially frustrating since it kept happening while i was shopping online since it would end up ommitting results that were the same listing on different sites with different prices, this revented me from being able to make an informed purchasing decision by default
 
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recently ive been getting messages at the bottom of my search results like this:


there articles dedicated to helping people who get lumped in with omitted results by mistake, makes me wonder what they use to decide what is and isn't considered 'repetitive content'

this was especially frustrating since it kept happening while i was shopping online since it would end up ommitting results that were the same listing on different sites with different prices, this revented me from being able to make an informed purchasing decision by default
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Google, Russian-language or otherwise, is all about them shekels. Amazon does similar shit to get you to buy the product they want you to buy, rather than the one you would have found if their search wasn't rigged.

I feel like this is an unsustainable race to the bottom. Internet search is at an all time shitty. Nothing can be trusted. It is frustrating that normies either can't tell the difference or don't seem to care. The future is so fucked.

I hope Google goes out of business.
 
Is Yandex really the only search engine that sometimes listens and obeys? It doesn't do it consistently, but at least it follows - and + instructions most of the time. As just one example, not being able to filter out Amazon results is one of the biggest frustrations in using Normie Corporate Bullshit Fake Search.
 
yandex has been slipping in quality lately IMO, but their image search is still superior to googles, i would reccommend searx if your looking for a google substitute
Fabio Socialist said:
Is Yandex really the only search engine that sometimes listens and obeys? It doesn't do it consistently, but at least it follows - and + instructions most of the time. As just one example, not being able to filter out Amazon results is one of the biggest frustrations in using Normie Corporate Bullshit Fake Search.
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