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.world
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    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.world
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      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.ca
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      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