You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago
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@lispi314
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purposeduckduckgo ftw
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duckduckgo
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean That's why I now use duckduckgo. SO MUCH BETTER.
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean Least surprising revelation of the year to be honest.
I think the exact same thing is true of YouTube, which is so dominant that they can make it shittier every day and people will still use it.
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean is there a source on this?
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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 By the way: Never heard of “Harold and the Purple Crayon” before, but https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Harold+and+the+Purple+Crayon%22+PDF results in a PDF with a Hindi translation (including the English original, but black and white without purple) and a PDF with a version with additional graphic explanations for people with disabilities on the first search result page. … which probably is as good as it gets for a work still under copyright.
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@Paradox By the way: Never heard of “Harold and the Purple Crayon” before, but https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Harold+and+the+Purple+Crayon%22+PDF results in a PDF with a Hindi translation (including the English original, but black and white without purple) and a PDF with a version with additional graphic explanations for people with disabilities on the first search result page. … which probably is as good as it gets for a work still under copyright.
@HeptaSean
It's an old kid's book about a boy that explores the world while drawing it all with his crayon.Thanks. ^_^
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean right
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose -
You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean where is this coming from? What's the source?
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@ocean
Ha! Knew it!
Not long ago I pointed out to someone that in a way, worse search results meant more time scrolling and ergo more ad impressions, so it wouldn't at all surprise me if they quit bothering to improve.Fuckers. I'd assumed a sort of passive acceptance and laziness had led to degraded quality, but the fact that it was actually designed that way means there should be a "recall" of their product and they need to compensate me for all the wasted time before I finally gave up and went to DDG (which, IMO, has dropped significantly in quality since I started using it
).Thing is, look at ANY online business that makes money off of ad impressions and there is an immediately obvious incentive to find ways to increase your scrolling time on the site. Not all are scummy grifters, of course, but when the incentive is there, someone is going to take advantage of it.
Well, as with other companies, competition and product reviews are needed to link good service to profits. So maybe consumers should change up their search engines.
Here's an article from PC Magazine that compares them:
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose@ocean this big issue here is that everyone else's search is still worse
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You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
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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 this is why they have heavily invested in trump 2.0. It just makes cynical business sense.
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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 wonder if they utilised the same strategy for Google Translate? Because it's equally unusable now — I recall early machine-assisted translation systems from the nineties doing much better job that what Google Translate does now. At times it's hard to figure out what is the meaning of the resulting text even if you speak both languages and know what the usual pitfalls are.
