Has search gotten worse?

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Is the quality of web search results getting worse?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1,239 94.6%

  • No

    Votes: 19 1.5%

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    Votes: 52 4.0%
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Google has completely enshitified search. Decided to switch to Brave. Results are okay, it usually gets me what I want. But the stupid slid to verify is pissing me off. Feels that sometimes we are going back to the dialup era of speed because of stupid verifications because AI has ruined the internet
 
Half of the time when I try to search for something on Google the first page of results are AI blog posts. Search engines are becoming increasingly useless for sure
 
TerraformYourAnus said:
Half of the time when I try to search for something on Google the first page of results are AI blog posts. Search engines are becoming increasingly useless for sure
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Agreed. Even before AI it was getting harder to find stuff on Google related to human questions etc... with SEO ruining search.

How many of you have added "reddit" at the end of your search to get actual human results to something? Or some other site. We never used to have to do this.
 
I use brave search but also use bangs a lot
https://search.brave.com/bangs if they added a !kiw i could search here easier (!kiw is available but I don't know how you request a bang)
Surprisingly I have found yandex to yield better results reverse image searching over tineye & Google.

Google is dogshit compared to what it used to be
 
GeorgeFloydFentanylStash said:
Google has completely enshitified search. Decided to switch to Brave. Results are okay, it usually gets me what I want. But the stupid slid to verify is pissing me off. Feels that sometimes we are going back to the dialup era of speed because of stupid verifications because AI has ruined the internet
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just use searXNG, https://searx.space/
 
Holy fuck no search engine can find whatever I'm looking for anymore. It's beyond fucked. I'm looking for a video about an airport gate getting shutdown over unpaid fines for a consumer rights case, and what am I presented with? News information about the government shutdown with TSA. No you fucking jeets and nigger DEI hires, I don't give a shit about the current shutdown, I want to find this video that you have buried in my youtube search history (which doesn't work either for whatever reason, but that's a whole other rant because it repeats the same day over and over now) or when I search for nearly the exact title, I'm presented with some chink or nigger trying to be some random information influencer. Holy fuck it is all beyond fucked.
 
The ATF Disliked That said:
Holy fuck no search engine can find whatever I'm looking for anymore.
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Trying to find anything from before the current year is also becoming increasingly difficult. Nearly every search engine just wants to return fresh results. This has caused these SEO farms to make minor changes to their websites every single hour to make sure that their site is at the top of the results. So they'll just take an AI slop article and constantly refresh it so that it looks like it was posted within the last hour. Sites that have useful information but haven't changed in years are hidden if not completely removed from search results.

Also there are now bots that are going through Q&A and support threads and marking everything "solved". So you find a thread that says "why does my browser crash on this site?" and it's marked as being a "solved issue" but then the thread is nothing but people having no idea what is causing the problem.

I talked about this in other threads how bot have invaded Wikipedia again and are posting slop websites as sources on every popular article to drive traffic to them. And the slop sites are usually some pajeet language nonsense that is nothing more than a gigantic advertising page.
 
I was looking for the script to a Married With Children episode called "Requiem for a Chevyweight." Searching for "Requim for a chevyweight script" with the word "requiem" misspelled as "requim" (which is IMO easier to remember than the corrrct spelling and I thought it was the actual spelling the first time I tried to search for it) will give a "your search did not match any documents" message despite only being off by one letter, despite none of the other words in my search being misspelled, and despite that if you do a search for simply "requim" Google will automatically correct it to "requiem"
 
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It seems like the only Search Engine that bothers to return organic results (sans Wikipedia) is StartPage and ironically Brave, which is hosting AI assistant generated results itself. Most search engines, including DuckDuckGo are pretty much dead and the only thing they return are AI content farms or mainstream sites.

Thank the UN for it, all of the pajeets are likely from the United Nations.
 
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