Dr. Damien P. Williams, MagusMay 29, 2023
Why is literally every search engine variously but fundamentally fucking Broken, now? Yes even whatever one you were about to suggest.
Show threadDr. Damien P. Williams, MagusMay 29, 2023

And no it's not Just SEO/Marketing/Ad-Targeted shit on the search side, because even DDG is having these problems, and they're quite fucking scrupulous about these things.

Also, that still wouldn't explain the behaviour I'm talking about, even when accounting for SEO embedding on the site side. Again: not returning results that absolutely should come up in the search parameters, but returning those results with different, possibly less-well-related parameters.

Show threadWill OrrMay 29, 2023
@Wolven My personal favorite has been when I search for two words, and I only get results with one of the words. It's bad enough that any time I open a page, I make sure to search in the page for each of the search terms I was originally looking for to verify that it's even close to a reasonable result.
Show threadCoprolite9000May 30, 2023

@worr @Wolven
I'll look up how to do something in a particular 3D software package, and Google will helpfully provide links telling me how to do that thing in an entirely different bit of software. It's ... not useful. (Packing *everything* in quotation marks ends up being necessary...)

Although recently it found vague *synonyms* for every word in my search query - including the software's name itself (Substance Designer).

I'm sure there's lots of very clever code doing this, but AAAARGH.

Show threadCoprolite9000
@worr @Wolven
(This is for really, really specific searches - in a landscape that should still be unpolluted by endless SEO nonsense. For more generalised stuff? An even louder AAAARGH.)
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