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Rant HN: Why I hate modern Google Search, a perfect example
5 points by usui on Feb 20, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
hmm, I've run into a weird thing regarding a very specific scope in a Google API, time to look up the reference https://imgur.com/UNXa0wp

ah yes, two results, shouldn't be too hard to find what I need

https://imgur.com/0N5u7dz I click on the first link and oh shit, there is no information of value, hah that was a one-off doozy though, haha

https://imgur.com/vlmNvEJ Ok second link, of course Google is accurate on googleapis.dev becaus- oh shit, the only match for "read" when I CMD+F is "README". Ok, maybe if I go back to Google's cached results for both pages, I'll have something remotely relate- OH MY GOD THE CACHED RESULTS ARE AWFUL, NO!!!

this is why I fucking hate today's Google Search because I can't even trust what it shows anymore and I waste hours of time a day

and by the way, this is me being lucky because usually I have to peruse 10 results before I realize that the 100,000 results returned are all bullshit



Is Google search likely to improve, stay the same, or get worse? It seems to me it's trending downward.

Whatever organizational issues are causing Google to flub their main product, they must be far-reaching. For Google management to work up a desire to reverse course (and to execute on it) could take a decade (or maybe an eternity).

So now I use Bing and DDG.




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