What’s your opinion? Does google really “not work” anymore? Are there any better search engines? Why did the quality of search results go down? I honestly stumbled onto this question through this music video, what is ironic in it’s own way i feel…

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I have notice that in the past you altered your terms a bit amd got different results, now the search gives me junk so I alter the phrase and same junk shows up. So it is not as effective at doing a deep search these days that actually matches the search terms.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Have you tried searching incognito? I find the junk is generally tied to profiles Google has on me; they decide based on the data they’ve built up what I should really be looking for.

      Searching incognito tends to return results closer to what I got 5 years ago.

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        1 year ago

        I run tracker control, and only essentail scripts can run, all ad stuff is totally blocked.