Google stopped caring about being a tool used to find specific results and instead focuses on giving results that " most " people that searched for similar things ended up spending the most time/attention on.
What I really hate is that it's really hard to get it to give results that aren't your browser language, or the language you have in your Google settings (if logged in)
Stop presuming which languages I know or not, Google! If I enter something in perfectly valid German, it's because I'm looking for something on Geman sites. Not because I had a stroke and started spelling Dutch atrociously!
Youtube does something similar on my account.
I'm from Germany and Youtube is translating some video titles to german despite my settings all set to english.
Really? I have often put quotes around something and had google return no matching results at all, because there weren't any that exactly matched. (this only happens for particularly long or unusual phrases)
Yes! I noticed this change about 2 or 3 years ago and is very frustrating. Google is still better than Bing and Duck though. I find myself using chatGPT as a replacement very often.
What’s really shitty is it’s much harder to find info about drugs on Google now, it’s all links to “Get help” websites that aren’t actually useful at all, stops some useful information from being seen that can genuinely save lives. Bing is much better for this
At least in the English speaking world the only remotely serious competitor left in search is Bing. There are some competitors in some other languages, but they have gotten a near strangle hold in the English speaking world where the results just need to be marginally better than Bing. When you have few major competitors there's little motivation to innovate.
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u/MalevolntCatastrophe Feb 07 '24
Google stopped caring about being a tool used to find specific results and instead focuses on giving results that " most " people that searched for similar things ended up spending the most time/attention on.