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Has google search gotten less accurate in anyone else’s opinion? In the sense that I’ll google something and often have to go to the second page to find the result to get past what look like ads. Even Wikipedia is often on the second page instead of the first result now?

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Questa volta abbiamo cercato: Has google search gotten less accurate in anyone else’s opinion? In the sense that I’ll google something and often have to go to the second page to find the result to get past what look like ads. Even Wikipedia is often on the second page instead of the first result now?

Maybe it’s my head

Ed ecco le risposte:

Google has DEFINITELY Got worse over the last couple of years.

Google scholar doesn’t work as well, and image search just floods with crap from Pinterest. Google has become severely less effective for me.

They’re more bothered about sending you to places that have paid to be at the top, rather than actual legitimate sources for anything.

Yes SEO has ruined everything. Look up fossils you get watches not dinosaurs, I had a pet scorpion but when searching scorpion it always gave me Scorpio horoscopes. That’s why Japan Sued Kim Kardashian for trying to call her underwear line Kimono, they were trying to preserve the importance of a significant part of their culture. Plus appropriation and all that.

Holy shit I thought it was just me.It used to be that there were a few pages full of the results you were looking for I kinda get half of what I’m looking for mixed with my recommendations based in my history gone to absolute shit.Lets not even get started on how bad YouTube has become I really need an decent adblock for my phone but I cant find a decent one

They deliberately changed image search because it was a popular way to shop without using their shopping format, which provides them additional revenue.

Search Optimization is a thing now too, with many companies in a cat-and-mouse game of gaming the algorithm to appear higher in the search listings.