Google swears everything is fine. A new study—and many people's lived experience—says different.

You’re Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds::Google swears everything is fine. A new study—and many people’s lived experience—says different.

    • VelvetStorm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      6 months ago

      Fuck using quotes or a negative search still won’t get you what you want. I’ve had it still pull up results with the negative words in it.

      • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

        It’s the same on YouTube. One time I added a negative term and I ONLY got that term in the results. I don’t understand how you can break such an important part of search.

      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.caEnglish
        8·
        6 months ago

        I’ve used terms like “ItemA”+“ItemB”

        And still get results which have the disclaimer “Missing: ItemB | Show results with: ItemB”

        I ALREADY TOLD YOU TO

      • Kiernian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Yeah, so they changed it so it defaults to the “new” way where quotes and -UnwantedTerm don’t function the way they used to, but when you fill out the search box, hit “Google Search”, and it fails to perform the way you want it to, once you’re on the results page, go to “Tools” click on “All Results” and change it to “Verbatim”.

    • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.luEnglish
      16·
      6 months ago

      Query: “list of item locations in game”

      Results:

      • YouTube
      • YouTube
      • YouTube
      • List of item locations in other game of the series
      • YouTube
      • YouTube
      • IGN (their article is a just bunch of videos)
      • Irrelevant SEO bait