• Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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    3 months ago

    Did they fix it? Last I tried it, all I could get was sponsored content and LLM spam.

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      3 months ago

      I use adblock so have no reference point how it looks like without adblock. I assume you would just scroll a bit lower to get actual results?

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        3 months ago

        Same (AdGuard) I meant like I’d consistently get all of the first page of results linking to hyper SEO clickbait sites / AMP links / Adsense affiliates (think multi-page/gallery/click-through articles and low quality content farm sites like CNET, Forbes, Quora, etc) with a smattering of straight up keyword banks, snippet aggregator spam, and chatbot articles full of longwinded made-up nonsense with zero payoff.

        Even more annoying was that Google started dumbing down all my searches, regardless of technical detail and specificity, just railroading me into simplistic drivel. Eventually verbatim/quotes syntax stopped working also, and that was the end of google’s usefulness to me.