the rapid breakdown of google search results since 2018
Double quotes used to golden at Google.
In other words if I googled for "I want this exact phrase" that phrase had to be in all the search results. Google bought Youtube and that site doesn't work the same way. Youtube's algorithm knows better than you so it will force help you by giving other related results too. So it also gives me stuff like "I want this unrelated garbage" - gee thank you, Youtube.
Google understanding of double quotes in searches tends to be good (if not very good) but sometimes it's just like Youtube and I can't disable the fucking site from giving me help I don't want.
I don't even know how to get a complete list of youtube results anymore. It gives me like eight results and then tons of shit I didn't ask for. Idk how to search peoples channels, either. And I had a fucking miserable time getting google to stop including certain words or domains. It's gone completely to hell, it's so much harder to use than it was even a few years ago.
Wikipedia should have a page for "tech company lifecycle". And one stage of the lifecycle should be "When the company starts to actively be annoying by 'helping' you.'
Eventually every executive from the lowest to the highest paid CEOs are going to do the same thing. They're doing to ask their favorite AI app "How can we increase profits quickly?" God only knows what insane and hairbrained stuff will follow.
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there's no bigger sign of collapse than the rapid breakdown of google search results since 2018
other than covid, and chemical spills, and exponentially crumbling infrastructure and 80F temperatures in the middle of January
Double quotes used to golden at Google.
In other words if I googled for
"I want this exact phrase"that phrase had to be in all the search results. Google bought Youtube and that site doesn't work the same way. Youtube's algorithm knows better than you so it will force help you by giving other related results too. So it also gives me stuff like"I want this unrelated garbage"- gee thank you, Youtube.Google understanding of double quotes in searches tends to be good (if not very good) but sometimes it's just like Youtube and I can't disable the fucking site from giving me help I don't want.
I don't even know how to get a complete list of youtube results anymore. It gives me like eight results and then tons of shit I didn't ask for. Idk how to search peoples channels, either. And I had a fucking miserable time getting google to stop including certain words or domains. It's gone completely to hell, it's so much harder to use than it was even a few years ago.
Wikipedia should have a page for "tech company lifecycle". And one stage of the lifecycle should be "When the company starts to actively be annoying by 'helping' you.'
Eventually every executive from the lowest to the highest paid CEOs are going to do the same thing. They're doing to ask their favorite AI app "How can we increase profits quickly?" God only knows what insane and hairbrained stuff will follow.