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·
      9 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·
        9 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·
        9 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

    • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.luEnglish
      16·
      9 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