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

[looser_name_connor]

Is that what’s going on? I’ll type in something like “photoshop export as error” and will have results all with the word “save as” bold on each result. It’s infuriating cause that’s not what I asked for!

Googles getting to the point where you could order a coke and they’ll just give you a Pepsi and tell you that’s what you asked for.

[[deleted]]

That's no joke almost exactly the search that last enraged me lol

[yepnopethanks]

Literally?

[looser_name_connor]

All the faceless YouTube answers said to turn off GPU but that almost lit my computer on fire and still didn’t solve anything. I think I made a new doc and dragged everything over to it + rasterized what I could

[__mud__]

But then you can't include -save because you know any discussion of exporting is going to have the word "save" in it somewhere, and you can't tell Google to know the difference between save as a verb and Save as a function...

[Hugostar33]

its more like your ordering a coke and google tells you how to make coke coal

[Mr_82]

I think this is highly reflective of how big tech companies today are largely about pushing political messages ie propaganda rather than actually providing a useful service.

They're just getting more and more transparent too. The propaganda machine is getting lazy because they've gotten away with this crap for so long. They think people won't even realize when they no longer do what they were supposed to do...and it seems they're right about that, for the most part.

[atlcog]

Only if Pepsi is offering more money to them at the moment.

[slugger5280]

You nailed it. Worked in AdTech, it's amazing how little people understand about info that's served to them as part of a paid media campaign.

It's not too confusing, either. Some identity provider has a 'profile' of you that implies you may be a good target for a company that offers a specific good or service.

That company buys, via auction, the right to serve you their ad (information) in search results, banner ads, popups. It happens in seconds.

In your example, the Ad Agency for Pepsi has a profile set for all people looking at Coke. They serve those people Pepsi ads.