Google execs admit users are ‘not quite happy’ with search experience after Reddit blackouts

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Google execs admit users are ‘not quite happy’ with search experience after Reddit blackouts - Lemmy.world

Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

Honestly Google Search in general seems to get worse every year, for work any kind of niche issue involving errors returns no results on Google (literally no results), tried plugging the same search into Bing and the first 5 results were actual answers on solving the error

It amazes me how a search engine once considered a massive joke is able to outperform Google

What were you searching?

An error log for some Scala code, tried the usual thing of Googling full error log, key words etc and nothing really returned any actual useful results (or none at all)

Put the full log into Bing and the first few results were straight from stack overflow and a raised GitHub issue describing the errors cause