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26 October 2020, 10:24 AM | #1 |
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Google is worthless
Has anyone noticed in the past year that google search has become worthless? Pages and pages deep of only ad related results with zero organic results in sight. Absolutely useless search engine anymore. I searched “Rolex gaining time in certain positions”. First 10 pages were either completely unrelated or ads for watch companies. I don’t want to buy a service from someone I just want to $&@%#* get an answer to my question from an organic source. Sorry rant over.
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26 October 2020, 10:29 AM | #2 |
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26 October 2020, 10:32 AM | #3 |
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Hi Joshua,
What planet are you on?
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26 October 2020, 10:47 AM | #4 |
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P score (probability that a searchers intent matches content) is less and less weighted.
Trust algorithms are gain more and more important. |
26 October 2020, 10:53 AM | #5 |
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Well it’s gotta be better than Bing.
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26 October 2020, 10:54 AM | #6 |
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Throwing darts at a 1957 phonebook would be better than Bing.
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26 October 2020, 11:17 AM | #7 |
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26 October 2020, 11:19 AM | #8 |
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FYI Joshua my google search looks exactly the same.
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26 October 2020, 11:55 AM | #9 | |
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I have been upset with that for much longer than a year. First there wasn’t enough information, then there was a lot of incorrect, not-properly-cited information, then it was optimized maybe 10 years ago or so (my experience), then it has mostly been all about advertising and data mining the last 10 years or so. I have heard that duck duck go is decent, but I haven’t tried it... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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26 October 2020, 12:01 PM | #10 |
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Clear your history and cookies.
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26 October 2020, 12:12 PM | #11 |
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Try using Adblock Plus (free, and very simple to set up) and also clear out cookies, browser cache, etc. There are some free tools (such as CCleaner) which can make regular maintenance a bit easier.
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26 October 2020, 12:16 PM | #12 |
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They’re actually worth over $1T. look up an adblocker
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26 October 2020, 12:19 PM | #13 |
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26 October 2020, 12:37 PM | #14 |
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Not to those harvesting your.....everything.
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26 October 2020, 12:39 PM | #15 | |
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26 October 2020, 12:42 PM | #16 | |
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26 October 2020, 01:27 PM | #17 |
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I tried searching google for a new lighter but all it found was 226,132,459 matches.
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26 October 2020, 01:35 PM | #18 |
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Mine looks the same as those who posted alternative results
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26 October 2020, 03:05 PM | #19 |
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Now that's funny! Nicely done.
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26 October 2020, 04:02 PM | #20 |
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DuckDuckGo
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26 October 2020, 08:43 PM | #21 |
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This.
I’ve also switched to using private mode for some searches, I’ve found duck duck go can be similar to bing and return weird search results sometimes. Duck duck go also shows how many trackers are on the page you’re visiting, creepy and eye opening. |
26 October 2020, 08:58 PM | #22 | |
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26 October 2020, 11:45 PM | #23 |
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Run a Google search with and without going through a VPN for the same thing and see the difference. Search the same using Duck Duck Go and see the difference. Google searches are probably the single most manipulative tool on the planet, influencing what we buy, eat, believe, and of course vote for.
We get pummeled in the media by this Qanon nonsense, but do a Google search for actual posts or archives of posts by this person(s) and see how you’ll find virtually nothing other than news stories about it. Use other search engines and see how different the results are and you’ll find actual posts and archives. This isn’t a political position, merely an observation I came up with this weekend out of curiosity. |
27 October 2020, 03:19 AM | #24 |
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Watch “Social Dilemma” on Netflix if you really want to know how useless a Google search is.
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27 October 2020, 03:21 AM | #25 |
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*laughs in advertiser*
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27 October 2020, 03:56 AM | #26 |
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Duck Duck Go. I still do some things on Chrome/Google, but I always use Duck Duck Go for search.
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27 October 2020, 03:58 AM | #27 |
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I heard duckduckgo is pretty good. Maybe you can try that instead.
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27 October 2020, 04:44 PM | #28 |
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It’s essentially my front page to the internet - can’t remember the last time I actually typed in a URL manually
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27 October 2020, 04:46 PM | #29 |
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I don’t know about Google, but Edge sure is a PITA
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27 October 2020, 06:09 PM | #30 |
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Comparing to the competition it works very well. I don't have issues fiding my search resuts personally.
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