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Google Search Results Changing
Infraviolet:
The trouble with search engines nowadays is they are increasingly trying to show you what they think you WANT to see, based on what other people saw when they made similar searches, I don't think they've realised what type of feedback lop that serves as. They no longer seem to show you things based on your actual keywords, but rather on what their machine learning algorithms think those keywords mean you are looking for.
nardev:
I have an impression that all those "content creators" are flooding more and more different areas that i'm actually worried about future of web search. It already happened several times in recent past that i had to figure out better way of putting up words or to go through result page to find what i was looking for.
First several pages were simply full of useless articles just pretending to be the right content for what i was looking for.
Perhaps, we might need to pay for better results one day? Or Char GPT is going to be another interface with paid version?
Who knows what is ahead of us...
EPAIII:
"Becoming"?
Google IS, and ALWAYS HAS BEEN an ADVERTISING COMPANY. Everything they do is aimed at selling their services to other companies that have products to sell. They have not now and never have had any other purpose. Their search service is not to serve your interests. It is designed to serve the interests of those PAYING customers. That is how they make their money.
Open your eyes.
Almost all the other FREE services and products on the internet are the same.
--- Quote from: jonpaul on December 27, 2022, 08:31:46 am ---Google is becoming just another sales and ad pusher, results of searching less and less useful.
We dumped it and use the more security and less ad infested Duckduckgo Go search engine in all our browsers.
Try it!
Jon
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Infraviolet:
Sometimes you see "article" pages flooding out various queries where each article is a list of random questions marginally relating to one key word of your search, and every question is illiterately answered at that. I wonder if those sort of pages to take clicks from search results are being AI generated already?
mendip_discovery:
--- Quote from: EPAIII on January 03, 2023, 09:09:28 am ---"Becoming"?
Google IS, and ALWAYS HAS BEEN an ADVERTISING COMPANY. Everything they do is aimed at selling their services to other companies that have products to sell. They have not now and never have had any other purpose. Their search service is not to serve your interests. It is designed to serve the interests of those PAYING customers. That is how they make their money.
Open your eyes.
Almost all the other FREE services and products on the internet are the same.
--- Quote from: jonpaul on December 27, 2022, 08:31:46 am ---Google is becoming just another sales and ad pusher, results of searching less and less useful.
We dumped it and use the more security and less ad infested Duckduckgo Go search engine in all our browsers.
Try it!
Jon
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That is a bit unfair. I am old enough to remember the search engine wars. Google won because they had a search engine that worked and though they had adverts it was clear the were adverts but they were also not big flashy gifs or large flash animations. The adverts where just text and it was clear. If it wasnt for Google you would have AskJeeves or Yahoo! With the messy navigation and adverts that zoomed in all over the place.
The poison for google was when it stopped being about searching but about pleasing the investors and make more and more money.
There have been many issues that has faced search engines, some sites got all clever with SEO and they keyworded the site so well it got better placing yet had no real info on it. Much like those sites that allude to having the manual you want for you latest TEA moment. Now they are using bots to write sites that look to have useful into but it's about as informative and reliable than 80% of YouTube (reps you are in the 20%). Problem is finding the good info from the trash and if your google fu is good then you can work it to get good results more often than not, but I do get days where the Schwartz isn't with me and I get the same crap results as the rest if you.
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