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You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Or I'm just gonna stop using Google