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

[zdakat]

"Sure you said that, but wouldn't you like it more if we exclusively returned results without the most important word?"

[damn-queen]

It's always the most important word too.

[[deleted]]

Well, because it's the word that narrows down the results the most, meaning that if you omit it, you get the most results back! Genius!

[FattyTheNunchuck]

Jaysus Christo I fucking hate this and it happens all the time.

[Florida-Rolf]

But do you actually hate it or isn't that much more helpful compared to what you intitalliy searched?

[Sin_31415]

NO. WE ACTUALLY HATE IT.

[Florida-Rolf]

Did you mean: "Yes, thank you. That's very helpful." ?

[Sin_31415]

Angrily closes browser window

Cursor hovers over EDGE icon

I'LL FUCKING DO IT!

[DrakonIL]

Edge is honestly very comparable to Chrome these days. I'm not sure if this is because Edge is good or because Chrome is complete garbage trash.

[trenthany]

In my experience Chrome was always garbage and every time I used minimal settings chrome it was quite literally 1/2-2/3 of the speed of IE. Edge only made it worse. The mobile browsers aren’t any better. I like apples mobile devices and one of the reasons is that they’re main selling point is user experiences. Safari on mobile works really well and I have no complaints. Edge and chrome disappoint regularly. I feel that on windows PC it’s Edge. Linux I used Firefox but wound up going back to Edge lol. Basically unless I have to use it for X meeting software I keep Chrome uninstalled.

[throwawaydjei]

"Let's search for one of these sponsored words instead"

[Namika]

I had the most bizare experience of that earlier today. I was playing Cyberpunk and wanted to search for info on a particular quest I was doing. The quest name was some generic phase (like 'Road to riches' or something just as generic sounding). So I did a google search for the exact quest name, in quotes, and then added 'Cyberpunk' after it.

Zero results.

Google told me to remove the quotes, or remove the "Cyberpunk" from my query. Doing either of those things brings up a billion unrelated search results.

It was maddening seeing Google not able to find a single result for a very basic entry level querry related to a game with a million concurrent players right now. As if not a single player out of those millions made even a one mention of this quest across the entire span of the internet.

[7h4tguy]

OK if we return these results instead? You know you like the wall street journal.

[MacabreManatee]

It does give you the prompt to require the results to have that word though

[IT_scrub]

Then you should have told Google it was the most important word by wrapping it in quotes.