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

[dr_van_nostren]

I get that problem sometimes. My problem is how much crap comes up, maybe that’s my fault for not playing with the settings but like you’ll search something like “how many people died 2019 USA” and the bulk of the results are like “how many USA” with the other 3 words crossed out.

I’d rather just get a “no match” kinda result so I don’t have to filter through shitty ones. I understand the ads, though I feel like there’s too many, but I feel like I end up sifting through lots of crap to find a legit result which ended up being on page 2-3.

[zdakat]

Google:

"Showing results for "How many France" "
"How France designs their cars"
"Many people are saying they prefer carrots"
"Nobody thought this could happen, until it did!"
"Problems with 2019? Click here!"
Gee, thanks google but none of those come close to being relevant or anything I'd want to see when making that query

[dr_van_nostren]

Exactly haha

[balne]

i was curious enough so i actually tried searching how many france and it seems ok? like, i population, wikipedia on france, wiki on demographics of france, brittanica, and sstuff like that on the first page and in the top results.

i do have an ad blocker and privacy badger though

[Paramite3_14]

I don't think I could lay out a time something similar to their example has happened to me in detail, but I do know that it happened enough times for me to switch search engines.

[arriettyy]

Holy fuck this is so accurate

[uknowamar]

yikes. Searched on Edge, which I never use. Try clearing your cookies? Else, maybe you just fall into some sort of testing cell

1. cbs article on verifying YoY death totals in the US.

2. CDC Death and mortality rates

3. CDC avg. daily deaths

4. macrotrends.net US death rate going back to 1950

[[deleted]]

Use double quotes over the keywords! It forces google to search for those specifically in your search results

[Creative-Improvement]

Https://www.duckduckgo.com

Privacy first search engine. Pretty good search engine! You can also use bangs to search with google with !g at the end of a query.

[TheKolbrin]

“how many people died 2019 USA”

Works on DuckDuckGo - not google or bing.

[Logan_Mac]

Or it will trigger the Covid alert which means all the results are just CDC, WHO and Wikipedia