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You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (3 children)

DDG keeps changing my search query because its "not returning a lot of results" or because it thinks I typo'd and it is infuriating to me, sometimes it doesnt even inform me that it did, not even giving me a link to click to get to my actual search query

'also noticed that it got worse around the same time google did

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Yeah, that’s because it gets the results from Bing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, jeez. The number of times I give up and Ctrl+F on the page I've clicked to, just to find that the phrase I double-quoted just does not exist there and that my time has been wasted

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Omg yes

Search: "staplers"

"What's all this saint stuff?? Hmm wtf?"

'Where you trying to search for "St. Rap Lore?" Here are your results.'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It’s very hit or miss for deeper searches. Sometimes at work I just default back to Google because I need quick results that are more relevant. Ecosia has been decent but I don’t have enough hours into it yet. I’m open to ideas, honestly.