Has search gotten worse?

[HarblMcDavid]

Topic of the thread: yes, it does seem to have gotten worse, but I can't tell how much of that is the internet shrinking and how much of that is search engines.

That said the part of search I miss Google image search back when it still did results in pages. That rabbithole led to many a casually entertaining afternoon and things haven't been the same ever since.

 

[totse]

I got into the Brave search beta, honestly don't have the motivation to fuck with it right now but if anyone has any searches they want to test and compare with other engines I can run them through

 

[Blasterisk]

I got into the Brave search beta, honestly don't have the motivation to fuck with it right now but if anyone has any searches they want to test and compare with other engines I can run them through

Well, since it's a recent point of interest upthread, go look for Mike's Dave's nutz.

 

[Bongocat]

JeeeeHeHeHEEEEEEEEEEEsus christ

People have been telling me lately that google image search was getting bad, but I had no idea it was this next fucking level.

I saw this image and thought "is that Davig Lynch? I'll reverse image search and find out!"

Yeah that's what I wanted. Pictures of fucking Trump.

Here's a knockoff search engine from a shitty third world country

That is indeed, David Lynch. Thanks Putin.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I swear Google doesn’t give a shit anymore, they find the most common things people want and just give that to you, no matter what your query was.

And it works because SQUIRRELS! We’re so easily distracted.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

I got into the Brave search beta, honestly don't have the motivation to fuck with it right now but if anyone has any searches they want to test and compare with other engines I can run them through

I can find almost no discussion anywhere about Brave Search, even their own reddit. I want to see if it deranks the sites we've talked about earlier in this thread - the fake review sites, pinterest, quora, and other worthless search clogs google thrusts on us.

 

[Bongocat]

I can find almost no discussion anywhere about Brave Search, even their own reddit. I want to see if it deranks the sites we've talked about earlier in this thread - the fake review sites, pinterest, quora, and other worthless search clogs google thrusts on us.

I would definitely be talking about it if they sent me my f**king invite already

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

OK Google, this is fucking enough.

I searched for my local translation of "I will make it legal" and I got 95% results about some sappy latin love song nobody knows by some literally whomst'd, just because it has the phrase in a single lyric!

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I tried looking up the MPAA rating of Total Recall (a 1990 film). Google returned results as in ratings by critics. I had to get more specific, and the top result was about which age group you think the movie is appropriate for. Finally after narrowing it down even more, I had to open IMDB to find out the rating.

argh...

(Also the Wikipedia article doesn't say from what I could see.)

 

[Jeff Boomhauer]

JeeeeHeHeHEEEEEEEEEEEsus christ

People have been telling me lately that google image search was getting bad, but I had no idea it was this next fucking level.

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I saw this image and thought "is that Davig Lynch? I'll reverse image search and find out!"

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Yeah that's what I wanted. Pictures of fucking Trump.

Here's a knockoff search engine from a shitty third world country

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That is indeed, David Lynch. Thanks Putin.

I try this with people's avatars on here, and 99% of the time I get a generic response like, "Man", "Woman", "Cartoon", etc.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I try this with people's avatars on here, and 99% of the time I get a generic response like, "Man", "Woman", "Cartoon", etc.

<-- birb on innertube gets "swimming"



(also some KF stuff)

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

I recently searched Amazon for 'outdoor security cameras'. The very first result? An indoor (only) security camera.

i cant even

 

[BootlegPopeye]

I recently searched Amazon for 'outdoor security cameras'. The very first result? An indoor (only) security camera.

i cant even

Store search engines I swear must be using whatever algorithm Google is using. Similarly - Walmart.com will give you shit results as well, only tangentially related to what you are looking for.

Solution? Some else posted this earlier in the thread - search on DDG or whatever 'amazon outdoor security camera' and you usually get better results than doing it on the website. Same thing for Walmart.com.

 

[Madre Muerte]

Spanish google managed to get it right(shakira symbol)

 

[Gig Bucking Fun]

If you search up the word “nigger” on Google, you only receive articles on the history of the word. I miss reading the frenetic ramblings of some angry racist from “ihateblackpeople.com”.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

If you search up the word “nigger” on Google, you only receive articles on the history of the word. I miss reading the frenetic ramblings of some angry racist from “ihateblackpeople.com”.

Certain search results like that I think are hand curated. This also goes along with what I said a few pages ago about Google cutting out alot of forums from search results. I think they do about the same thing for medical results, they probably didn't want natural news type results coming up when you searched for cancer symptoms.

 

[Tookie]

I had to open IMDB to find out the rating.

And IMDB has fallen victim to the same shit where all the information is buried several levels deep behind ads and clickbait.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

JeeeeHeHeHEEEEEEEEEEEsus christ

People have been telling me lately that google image search was getting bad, but I had no idea it was this next fucking level.

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I saw this image and thought "is that Davig Lynch? I'll reverse image search and find out!"

View attachment 2214871
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Yeah that's what I wanted. Pictures of fucking Trump.

Here's a knockoff search engine from a shitty third world country

View attachment 2214878

That is indeed, David Lynch. Thanks Putin.

Yeah, this is what we've been saying for a while now. In an earlier post from a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I tested out reverse image searches across multiple sites by using a photo of a well-known Hollywood actress. Google's results = "woman" and had generic photos of women. Bing = "zero results". Yandex = the original source photo I used came back as a result, as well as hundreds of images of her -- but the sites were all in Russian and had malware popups.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

Yeah, this is what we've been saying for a while now. In an earlier post from a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I tested out reverse image searches across multiple sites by using a photo of a well-known Hollywood actress. Google's results = "woman" and had generic photos of women. Bing = "zero results". Yandex = the original source photo I used came back as a result, as well as hundreds of images of her -- but the sites were all in Russian and had malware popups.

Did they ever explain this? Their reverse image search hasn't been usable for a good 5+ years now. My thought, without researching it, is that maybe people were using it to dox/stalk people somehow, but I have no idea.

 

[Bongocat]

Did they ever explain this? Their reverse image search hasn't been usable for a good 5+ years now. My thought, without researching it, is that maybe people were using it to dox/stalk people somehow, but I have no idea.

I was using image search on a fairly regular basis just a few months ago. It seemed like it worked fine. In that time though I wasn't specifically looking up people. It seems like now it doesn't work on anything at all.