Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
@L4s What I’m frustrated with Google search engine, is how it prevent to be smart and kept suggesting keywords that are not relevant to what in searching, the suggested result is totally irrelevant except for one common letter.
No shit lol
If Google makes changes that stop people from clicking through to reddit due to the protests then the protests will have likely done more lasting damage than anyone imagined.
Users weren’t happy with the search results before the blackout either, and “quite” has no part in it. Google traded quality results for revenue over a decade ago… right about the time they changed their Don’t Be Evil motto.
Wow, one meaningless, entirely replaceable piece of shit brought two giant companies to their knees. Good job, capitalism. Such a fragile snowflake.
Why do they call stuff “Googling” as it was a real word, if Google is failing at being a search engine?
Google should just buy Reddit so they can shut them down six months later.
Months? You mean weeks.
Are you saying they were going to… regReddit?
First they will rename it few times, Reddit+, RedditOut, RedditWave then merge it will Google Groups wait for a year and then pull the plug.
Yeah, no kidding. Google’s been getting lazy with its search results. The first dozen hits on most Google searches are either YouTube or Reddit results.
The YouTube videos that should have been a post or an article shoved down your throat are aggravating.
Oh so it’s not only me. 15 minutes of video, 3 ads, to get some information that I cannot copy paste with distractions and entertainment, when all I was looking for was the equivalent of half A4 page of text.
I don’t blame the creators, to be clear, but I blame who created the economical conditions that made this happen.
15 minutes of video, 3 ads
And this is why it’s objectively moral and ethically good to use ublock.
uBlock Origin is better. I’m pretty sure uBlock sold out to that Better Ads Commission thing. ~Nai
Google search is a pain from a year ago.
When searching for something on Google, you should include terms like “Reddit”, “superuser”, “Stack Overflow”, etc., to get better results. Because if you don’t include them, the first page of Google looks like a bot-generated page. Of course, Google are ‘not quite happy’.
SEO scammers are already figuring out how to game Google’s new Perspectives thing: https://searchengineland.com/optimize-content-google-perspectives-427876
I know this because when I Googled for, “Google Perspectives” Google gave me that URL with all the tips & tricks on how to game it 🙄
Who still uses Google in 2023
What do you use? Bing? Yahoo?
duckduckgo.com for images
search.brave.com for everything else
I find that brave still has the same problem as google a lot of the times though. If I search for info about something in Zelda for instance I get the same useless IGN and Gamrant articles rather than a wiki page or actually useful information.
I have yet to find a search engine that doesn’t have this problem.
DuckDuckGo has great results IMO
DDG is my default search engine but there are some types of searches that it’s not good at yet, so I find myself often toggling between the two after I see that DDGs response isn’t going to cut it.
Earlier today I was searching for a really specific Python error message and google had zero results. I tried Yandex and got the correct result on the first response.
Each search engine seems to be optimizing for a certain type of query and answer.
Ive started going to chatgpt to help me out with errors i dont understand and google hasnt helped with
Yesssss, me too. And often it gets to the right response on the first try which is the ultimate timesaver. This is why Google may be toast unless they can figure out how to integrate this.
The only caveat is that sometimes Chatgpt just hallucinates an answer or it’s incomplete, so you need a bit more dead reckoning to make sure you’re going the right way.
Same, it helps with a lot of issues and even skips the part where people are questioning why you even want to know that and how you’re doing it the wrong way and should do their way
I find DDG has the same garbage AI generated content as Google. Also, search operators have been broken on DDG for years
I liked them well enough, but recently is it just me or it seems like every time I reload a search by simply going back to the page, the ranking of the results immediately changes?
That is supper annoying to me, as now I can’t keep track of the results I opened easilyThis happens sometimes if you search for a new non-cached search phrase. It’ll give you a couple pages, then update it’s index and when you go back you’re on the updated index.
Interesting, but how come it never did that before? Did I just not notice?
I don’t know. I’ve noticed it happening for the last few months. Maybe they have the ability to update caches faster now and want to give the most fresh results. It can be irritating if you’re like me and like to click a result and then go back and open a bunch of results in new tabs.
Sounds plausible yeah, so I haven’t gone crazy haha, it really is annoying since usually the new results are also worse than the first batch in my experience. Guess I’ll just pick up the habit of opening everything in a new tab from the get go
the new results are also worse than the first batch in my experience.
FWIW I thought the same. Seems like every search engine turns to doo with time.
Would be a great moment for a great open source search engine to take everyone by storm, well, like that’s ever gonna happen…
This is a good change as it may expand to more sites. I’m one of those users that used reddit in query often looking for opinions or reviews. We should get Lemmy on the list.
Let’s just say that my use of the Wayback Machine is up by 1000% since the blackout started
