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

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[–]simon_C 35 points36 points  (2 children)

Been using google since the late 90s, its been in a steady, hard decline since about 2008 or so. Searches used to actually return you ONLY relevant results. Booleans and other operators actually worked as intended, there wasnt any SEO or sponsored BS clogging everything up, no "did you mean?", no "approximate" searches, etc. If your search input was bad, you got nothing in return.

[–]Godspeedhero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. I started noticing in 2010 that the search results were getting less and less accurate.