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Google is getting worse as it loses its fight against search engine spam
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2024
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Adding “site:” before a search string can help if you know what you’re looking for. Like site:wikipedia or site:GitHub.com
This kills off AI spam by constricting search results to pages from that site.
But google’s other problem that this doesn’t solve (just like Amazon) is that the first few results are always paid ads, and not actual search results.
Right, except if I knew beforehand which site has the results I need, why would I even use Google?
Sites that have discussions almost always have useless search functions. Using site: on those would likely give you better results then searching globally (even if it takes multiple searches).