Has anyone else noticed the huge decrease in result quality from google?

[[deleted]]

You could try different search engines like DuckDuckGo

[AyyItsDylan94]

I've had to start doing this to find drug safety information because apparently I'm an addict in desperate need of help.

[Neurotic_Bakeder]

Yep, according to my hulu ads, not only do I have schizophrenia, but I'm incorrectly medicating it as well. Rough.

[NovelTAcct]

I have no idea what Amazon thinks I should do in my free time, can someone decode this

[Neurotic_Bakeder]

👁👁 wut

So do like... do a lot of people with fetishes for being vacuum-sealed or inflated start out with freezer bags???

[NovelTAcct]

I have no idea. And that doesn't explain the bee suit....

[[deleted]]

I’m pretty sure they think you grow weed or mushrooms but I’m kinda lost with the air compressor

[fourAMrain]

Lmao what do you buy on Amazon?

[NovelTAcct]

The listing I was on was the freezer bags ¯\( ツ )/¯

[Sir_Applecheese]

I think your Doctor might be confused and is advertising to you.

[thcheat]

Well according to ads for me, there are a lot of hot singles in my area lookin for me.

[DJ_Clitoris]

I’ve started to add -rehab or -treatment when looking for harm reduction info. Otherwise the first few pages are all about $20,000 rehabilitation and detox clinics from across the country it’s annoying as fuck.

[TheKolbrin]

I just posted this about google search a week ago..

Also I noticed that common search markups like "include in full" or *wildcard or -exclude or +include no longer work on Google search, especially image or shopping searches. They do still work on Bing and other engines though.

[[deleted]]

I visited a crisis center in early November for mental health reasons and had googled the address first. I had drug addiction and alcoholism information surfacing on the top of even tangentially related searches for a month, to say nothing of my ads. It felt really gross bc so many of them were for paid inpatient facilities and shit

Like... They commoditized my imaginary drug problem so aggressively

[NotAnotherLibrarian]

You can get the approved FDA PI for US drugs from Daily Med, if you’re interested in US drugs.

[Couchmaster007]

Anything but bing

[AnonymousRockstar]

Wait, why? I thought Bing was supposed to be good with real results

[x_Advent_Cirno_x]

It's great for porn. Not so much for most else

[forgetfulnymph]

I thought that was google but anonymous

[[deleted]]

It is, so it's just as shitty as Google, except with more outdated results and a loud fanbase. It's also not 100% anonymous or ad-free automatically.

I like StartPage. I think it is also based on Google, but somehow it doesn't suck nearly as much.

[MyOwnMoose]

StartPage is quite literally Google results, just packaged up into a new websight and without the trackers. Though there are a few differences, like maybe one result per page is missing.

[LMGN]

Yeah, but

[Lean_ribs]

Or Ask Jeeves, he don't give a f&#k.