• rdyoung@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    edit-2
    9 months ago

    In addition, Googles search results have gone to shit. You used to be able to find what you needed (without drilling down with specific keywords) near the top of the first page. Now you usually have to go through a few pages to find anything close to what you want. You can thank the seo bullshit for this. So many shit filled articles now mostly written by “AI” clutter up the search results.

    Basically these people apparently weren’t doing a good job as it is.

    • Neato@ttrpg.network
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      9 months ago

      Also negative modifiers don’t work on Google. Quotation marks and the - are both useless so I cant be specific.

      • Beefy-Tootz@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        14
        ·
        9 months ago

        Yeah wtf is up with that? That’s what sold me on Google originally and now it’s gone or completely ignored. I’ve since switched to duckduckgo. I honestly couldn’t tell you if it was any better, but I’m so annoyed with Google results that anything’s better

        • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          9 months ago

          On duckduckgo those are only suggestions that shape the results. They aren’t “ignored” but also aren’t enforced. You can search for things in quotes that don’t ever show up and put a minus sign on things that do show up.

          It fucking infuriates me, but it is still better than Google.