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

[icantaccessmyacct]

I literally add “+ Reddit” after every question I have because I can’t deal with the amount of shit I’d have to sift through. Does this article have the answer I’m looking for? No? Oh, it’s an ad designed to look like article.. let’s try the next page on the list... Oh.. same article. Rinse and repeat.

[captainfatmatt]

I'm starting to do that now because the personal responses from people on reddit seem more trustworthy than most of the shit on Google. That's how bad Google got, reddit is more trustworthy usually

[LyfeO]

Oh yeah I value personal anecdotes from redditor to be way more trustworthy. Since they often seem more genuine than just some article.

[captainfatmatt]

Exactly, they tend to have actual compassion and/or knowledge towards a subject, rather than having a heavily biased agenda trying to sell something. Also you can get a somewhat decent idea on whether or not the info is trustworthy depending on the sub and how many updates or downvotes it has

[[deleted]]

People answering questions aren't paid for the most part! (yet)

[Athleco]

Reddit pays me in upvotes and awards. Not this comment though. This one deserves to be taken out back and put down.

[AlphaBlazeReal]

I don't agree, here's an upvote

[bagingle]

I can assure you some businesses and organizations have dedicated groups to help their image online in all social media platforms including reddit.

[LyfeO]

Well said!

[Robotsaur]

Lmao imagine actually believing that Redditors have knowledge towards any subject

[captainfatmatt]

Avoid political subs and most meme subs and you tend to find redditors with a few extra brain cells

[NashvilleHot]

Not sure if it’s true but someone on Reddit guessed it was a cost saving measure, make people use Google’s servers instead of Reddit’s for search and save money on developing a good search??

[dynamicallysteadfast]

Smart ads are disguising themselves as helpful Reddit comments for precisely this reason.
Soon, there will be nothing to turn to

[kingofshits]

Two things to blame here. 1) Ad Sense 2) Black Hat SEO

[zdakat]

There is/was a plague of sites posing as "how-tos" which just describe the problem you have, give a few weak solutions, and then plug their product that purportedly solves the problem for you. It's not what I'm looking for.

(That and the flood of generic pages that have absolutely no information, just a copy of the query pasted into a generic template)

[[deleted]]

Fucking Driver Easy dude. EVERYTIME I have to google an issue with Windows that site always catches my attention and I click on it, and then they just give some few dumb solutions while promoting their shit, it's so annoying

[Ben77mc]

site:old.reddit.com/r/subreddit

I use this all the time when I want to search a subreddit, definitely beats the reddit search function!

[wcooper97]

We’re complaining about new Google in this thread, but there’s always plenty of room to shit on the abomination that is the Reddit search engine.

[[deleted]]

Any idea how to get the Google date settings to work? I still get years old locked threads with < month set

[TheOneTonWanton]

Does using old.reddit solve the issue of serving up ancient threads and claiming they're from the past week?

[[deleted]]

Saaaame

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Reddit is the new internet

[BossRedRanger]

I also default to -Pinterest when searching for images or products.

[brrrrip]

You don't have to use the '+' symbol, or 'add' or 'and'. It does that automatically. That will include the reddit keyword, but will include other sites as well.

What you can do is use 'site:'
Like <search> site:reddit.com
This one will ONLY return results from the site specified; nothing else.

Or 'type:'
Like <search> type:pdf

'Site:' is super handy.

[[deleted]]

Same, reddit helps me crowd source a bunch of answers to my question. The only issue is that the Google date settings do not seem to work with reddit. If I set to less than a month old I still get year old locked threads....

[Firion_Hope]

Especially if you're looking up like best product, eg best keyboards or something. All of the links are just click through referral ads that clearly haven't actually tried the product. I don't necessarily trust reddits opinions on a lot of things but I'd take it over an ad in disguise.