You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago
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@aetios Because Google is so synonymous with web search for Normies and they don't have any actual competition they can just do whatever and they won't lose users, knowing that, it just makes sense to keep users on your site longer and thus get served more ads
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean: Ed Zitron wrote comprehensively on the people responsible.
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean@raru.re i'm not surprised, but i didn't noticed since i use alternatives from google since a long time
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean bunch...of...f**kers.
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean As predicted by Brin and Page: "we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers." (The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, 1998 - http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html)
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean Just as expected, Google the company who abandoned "don't be evil", is evil. By the way can you link the source?
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean If that is not enshittification as defined by @pluralistic...
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean@raru.re Active enshittification.
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean reinforcing what a lot of people have been saying: Google is an advertisement company. (do you have the link to the full text, please?)
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean I need to understand what people are searching for and why the first page doesn't help them.
Cuz the only time I can't find something is because I don't really expect to find anything. Either cuz it's a very niche question or earlier when I tried to get a pdf/ebook of Harold and the Purple Crayon (still copyrighted I think, no straightforward download).Like I believe people are having a hard time. I just can't tell from my experience.
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@ocean@raru.re i'm not surprised, but i didn't noticed since i use alternatives from google since a long time
@Stellar @ocean@raru.re The library
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@ocean TF2 Heavy Voice "Not big surprise!"
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
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@ocean @hjoest @christianschwaegerl came here to say this
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean
I learned about this strategy back in the early 2010’s which has made me more deliberate when I put in any searches. At the time I was shocked (I was a teenager then)but I quickly learned how to work around the system. I remember when searching had to be only a couple words at most to work, but now you can use whole phrases, this helps a lot with being more specific about what I want. But yes, it’s sad it’s a marketing strategy to keep people searching instead of “finding what you want” -
You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean@raru.re I gave up on Google Search like 2 years ago.
I am not surprised.
Still fond of the memories when you immediately found what you looked for. -
You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean@raru.re
if anyone else wanted to read the rest of the artaicle, the screenshot is from the following article:
https://journalrecord.com/2025/02/20/is-google-making-search-worse-to-sell-more-ads/ -
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I learned about this strategy back in the early 2010’s which has made me more deliberate when I put in any searches. At the time I was shocked (I was a teenager then)but I quickly learned how to work around the system. I remember when searching had to be only a couple words at most to work, but now you can use whole phrases, this helps a lot with being more specific about what I want. But yes, it’s sad it’s a marketing strategy to keep people searching instead of “finding what you want”next up, selling people more medicine is better for big pharma than actually curing people
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@christianschwaegerl @ocean @hjoest www.google.com/search?q=%22The%20recent%20court%20documents%20showed%20that%20Google%27s%20internal%20testing%20demonstrated%20that%20significantly%20worse%20search%20results%20would%20not%20harm%20their%20business%20operations.%20This%20apparent%20immunity%20to%20quality%20concerns%20stems%20from%20the%20company%27s%20dominant%20market%20position%2C%20which%20the%20recent%20federal%20court%20ruling%20addressed.%22
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@ocean I need to understand what people are searching for and why the first page doesn't help them.
Cuz the only time I can't find something is because I don't really expect to find anything. Either cuz it's a very niche question or earlier when I tried to get a pdf/ebook of Harold and the Purple Crayon (still copyrighted I think, no straightforward download).Like I believe people are having a hard time. I just can't tell from my experience.
@Paradox @ocean Same! I *can* somehow tell it getting less good over the years – some paid results to ignore here, some only seldomly helpful AI result there, … – but all in all it is still useful enough for me to this day. Do I include enough keywords in my searches? Do I only research topics that are not *that* prone to bad results? Don't know.
️(It's not always on the first page, though. I tend to ignore quite a lot of results based on the preview.)
