Obviously google was basically already unusable over the past five years but this is... this is something else. Any subject you want to look up will have the first three pages entirely comprised of procedurally generated fake blogs and websites. And there's nothing there. Just scraped text from articles mashed together with varying amounts of hallucinations on top. Not even selling a product, just to harvest ad revenue.
What's maybe even worse is the steady degradation of image searches too. Joe Everyman generates some slop, the image's metadata tags include a historical artist's name. Some one on pinterest pins it while trawling the web. Now there are fifty gooey generated sludge images when you look up the historical painter.
And its not just artists. Historical figures, animals too. Look up 'baby peacock' if you want a clear example of it.
It's a pretty funny bit google, I hope it keeps going.
Yeah, last year forced me to do quote searches with -minus keywords and date restrictions on lots of stuff
Minus keywords haven't worked in years and date restrictions are hit and miss. Try searching "Ukraine -Russia" or "Ukraine" and limit searches from 2000-2017. It'll be full of "what we know about the Russian invasion" articles from three days ago.
Why would google want functioning search tools when it could just feed you links it has mathematically deduced that you will click on? It already "works" so great on youtube after all!
Ugh I fucking hate Youtube these days, it's genuinely impossible to search for anything and I find myself pretty much only able to find stuff by going to the channels of people I've already watched
Love having about two results vaguely related to what I searched and then 10000 unrelated “you might like” recommends or unrelated vids I’ve already watched
in order to remove all war things from my first page of results i had to search for ""Ukraine" -Russia -support -war -weapons -asylum -defence -defense -forces -fleeing -counteroffensive -refugee" and it still has a youtube video that won't go away lol
Sort of, but they exclude something. Other search engines work with dates fairly well
Why would you want to look at articles about Ukraine from before 2022? It's obviously all Russian propaganda (even things from the NYT and other liberal papers)
I was looking for a transcript from the Senate of Ron Paul criticizing regime change attempts in Ukraine in like 2002
Well he was really criticizing spending the money to do it, but still
Same,I recently watched a Guardian documentary from a few years ago about neo Nazi summer camps in Ukraine, like wtf, how could Russia do this
They've been really insidious with their secret edits to old articles and even videos, you have to be careful out there
Heh, good thing Internet Archive is safe from outside meddling forever
I used date restrictions last week for exactly that topic and it worked just fine