Has Google’s search results drastically declined for anyone else?
Has Google’s search results drastically declined for anyone else?
Has Google’s search results drastically declined for anyone else?
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100% the page ranking system is too easy to abuse. So a lot of garbage gets to the top of results.
But the internet is just too big to do proper index searches like the old days.
Google sometimes tells me there were only 4 results (and none of them are the thing I'm searching). It's super annoying when it's something I know is online.
It’s super annoying when it’s something I know is online.
That may also simply no longer be true. Things do disappear from the internet; quite often actually.
What's the thing you were looking for? I want to try whether Kagi can dig it up.
Yes, I know things are taken down but that's not what I'm talking about at all. By "something I know is online" I mean that literally.
For example, cases where I was trying to use google to get straight to it instead of navigating multiple menus on a website.
Or a website I was at the previous day but I don't want to wade through my search history to get back there.
Then when google fails I go and navigate to it myself and it is still there.
Google has twice told me this.
But I got the page by searching browser history. The page refreshed too (not cached).