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I know it's boomer complaining about sites and search engines being better in the past, but holy actual hells, the main engines like Firefox and google are worse than ever before.
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I know it's boomer complaining about sites and search engines being better in the past, but holy actual hells, the main engines like Firefox and google are worse than ever before.
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https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Google made a conscious decision to stop all quality control in favour of maximising clickthrough rate
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The fact that people endless b-word about google instead of using any alternatives is why google can do that. Even this article admits to using google for all the research
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!codecels have you paid up for kagi yet
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I just use Yandex lol
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My experience with Yandex [COMPLETE A CAPTCHA] search [COMPLETE A CAPTCHA] results is generally pos[COMPLETE A CAPTCHA]itive, except they [COMPLETE A CAPTCHA] constantly want me to [COMPLETE A CAPTCHA]
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Doesn't happen for me. Maybe you should stop using your crappy VPN?
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DDG lets me use a VPN and works with JavaScript disabled
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I use a VPN for DDG, and it always hits me with a captcha everyday. Try a different VPN IP, like Russia.
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Started using it a few days ago. Seems decent so far. Better results than DDGarbage.
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Interesting, frick it, gonna signup, tenbux ain't bad for something that fricking works. Might effortpost about it down the line.
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Try the free trial first but it's pretty nice, if you weren't on ddg already bangs are awesome
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neighbor i use yandex
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Sorry to hear you're poor man, hope things pick up
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I'm satisfied with it after two months. The incredible feature of not ignoring my quotation marks is enough to keep using it
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I just use yandex. It's as good as google used to be
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There are alternatives to Google?
I thought Google WAS the internet.
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Good. Now tell them that Gemini competitors are unsafe and regulators need to reign them in to protect BIPOC minorities of color
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Google is still the best when I search for local news or places
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I stopped using google years ago, and they still haven't improved!
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interesting ethnicity of the names responsible for this
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Anyone who has seen how the American auto industry has developed and changed since the 1960s is having a déja vu moment right now.
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I'm not a commie but these business majors need to be put down.
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80 year olds in shambles
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holy hells forget linkrot, this is internetRot
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Sponsored result: Replace your entire kitchen!
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Do you think that Firefox is a search engine?
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With Firefox, you can do anything!
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B O O M E R
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Lmao yeah wait what
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before:YYYY-MM-DD function often gives me brand new articles.
They don't want us to nooootice things changing.
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This I think is mostly news site authors fricking up their DB but it SUCKS
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yeah i think you're right.
but i can't help but....
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You type: "Knight with a sword"
Google says: "Black man in armour with rainbow flag cape and sword"
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I lold when google officially started putting reddit at the top of their results since I'd also been adding site:reddit for years without realising. And that's acknowledging how shit reddit is in the first place, as in the actual search results are just that bad.
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When subs were shutting down to protest the API changes, someone at Google said it caused their traffic to decrease because Reddit results are a huge part of what they return.
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i have a bunch of custom search engines with site:website. Best way to use google is as a search engine for other websites.
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Not even 100% of those results will be from that website, though. Sometimes Google throws in other random results if there aren't many results from the website itself.
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It doesn't do that for me. You musr have some weird setting enabled.
For example, I am getting one result for this page and no mixing on my end, from this search:
https://google.com/search?q=site%3Ardrama.net+monkey+lizard
I tried it with a bunch of different searches using different sites and I never got any mixing no matter how many or little results. Google might just not like you
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Previously it seemed that reddit was never indexed somehow and would never show up unless you specifically added it.
Now it's like the opposite and every search gives you reddit as the first result and most of the time the reddit threads have nothing to do with your search
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SEO baby, we living in the motherfricking future.
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Has anybody tried Kagi search? I wouldn't mind giving them shekels but a paltry 100 free searches isn't enough to judge the engine
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Only briefly but it seems okay so far. I usually test with some random programming question and see if it actually gives me the useful (naturally stackoverflow) answer.
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Its good i find its AI quick answer feature gives me simple programming stuff and gives me quality answers most of the time
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yep shows promise, but it's slow AF and doesn't autocorrect properly. However I do get decent search results.
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No, you don't know how to use search is your biggest problem.
The only word in your search that Google won't pick up is "a" because it is not something anyone looks for.
As you can see below, Google was 100% perfect in looking up what you were asking for.
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If they hadn't ubercucked chatgpt with current time and political limitations google search would be going the way of altavista. But nooo, they were afraid of muh skynet.
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In this thread , recommend Yandex, Kagi, Searx and Brave. Haven't really checked any of them and just do with Go, which kinda sucks.
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Yeah it's gotten pretty abysmal
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Google literally changes your search on the backend. You can see this when the terms highlighted in the blurb under the website link aren't what you searched for
Yandex is the last good search engine
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Yeah
When i use quotes or +, that's because it's kinda important that term be included, but it still intentionally ignores it.
Every site is being a pain in the butt nowadays. Why does Facebook Marketplace keep insisting on showing results from outside your search area? I get that it's going to bump up "sponsored" content, but these are regular-butt listings taking priority despite being 80 miles outside my range. If I try to use any amount of filters, it removes a ton of valid listings.
And whatever happened to the Cached Version for when a site is down? I'm sick of the preview showing potential for having the answer I'm looking for, but the live page being some dynamic shit that no longer has the same content
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You can add "cache:" before the URL and Google should redirect you to their cached version
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Actually this is good We're going back to the internet before search engines babyyy
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I'm kinda convinced they've stopped indexing anything with an alexa rank below 10k or so unless the site pays them to or is loaded with SEO. Searching exact strings in quotes (part numbers and shit) that are 100% for-sure somewhere out there on the public internet will return zero results, or 15 or so SEO spam results in a foreign language.
Current hyperfixation:
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Go to /r/SEO and all of your questions will be answered.
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Needed a reference of a white woman with fingerwave hair yesterday. Was so shocked at how bad the results were I had to double check I wasnt on bing
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Idk, quotes still work for me. As in, putting a single word in quotes disables synonym search, putting a sentence in quotes searches for it exactly.
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iTODDLERS BTFO!
Snapshots:
https://9gag.com/gag/aGyR6Qz#comment:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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It's clearly been fricked with.
Before only a few years ago, if you searched for "BIPOC" you found pages that contained the word "BIPOC."
Now it just shows a bunch of corporate bullshit about racism bad
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It'll actually skip "a" and depending on context "with" as well
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Google recently started putting pop up ads in google maps when you arrive somewhere its infuriating
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Also you can search whole sentence by adding it in quotes. "like so" then it'll search for exact match. The drawback is it will ignore synonyms
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Not for google, though. It's been ignoring quotes around single words and phrases.
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