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Miscellaneous => Off Topic => Topic started by: R32Dude on December 24, 2021, 04:11:10 AM



Title: Why has google become a shithouse search engine?
Post by: R32Dude on December 24, 2021, 04:11:10 AM
Anyone else noticed that google is getting thicker with its searches? It used to give pages of good results, for months now I'm lucky to get 2 pages sometimes. Its become useless for anything non mainstream. Its become crap for searching keywords in this site too. 


Title: Re: Why has google become a shithouse search engine?
Post by: Geomeo on December 24, 2021, 08:01:19 AM
Have you tried googling that?  :). Agreed it is a complete shit show.  It is the same with YouTube searches.  It’s most likely political.  Try using quotation marks in the google search bar it might help.  e.g… “i” “would” “like” “to” “know” “why” “google” “sucks”


Title: Re: Why has google become a shithouse search engine?
Post by: R32Dude on December 24, 2021, 08:33:27 AM
I haven't as yet looked into it.

It used to be pretty good at searching here, as the local search feature is also crappy.

I tried as a test
"prj" site:www.nefariousmotorsports.com
5 hits produced
"nyet" is more prolific, a whopping 25 posts.

But  honestly, google is so bad at searching anything that Im getting scared that something big is brewing. Altavista 30 years ago gave me more hits. Its got to be something political alright. It all seemed to happen a few months ago only.
Edit:
 I just tried Bing- It's infinitely better!
 







Title: Re: Why has google become a shithouse search engine?
Post by: Blazius on December 24, 2021, 09:03:50 AM
blablbab site:www.nefariousmotorsports.com usually works for me but indeed it does not seem to like usernames,if you want posts by a specific user you can go on their profile.


Try DuckDuckGo for neutral search engine.


Title: Re: Why has google become a shithouse search engine?
Post by: justinvw2646 on December 24, 2021, 03:55:49 PM
I second duckduckgo. Way more privacy options and works pretty good.


Title: Re: Why has google become a shithouse search engine?
Post by: prj on December 24, 2021, 05:18:24 PM
Remove the www.