Seriously, there was a time when Google seemed to know what I meant when I searched for something. It was kind of uncanny but damn was it useful.
These days when I specifically enter a set of search terms, it is not just not unheard of but quite common that Google will present me not just with search results that DON'T include one or more of my terms but actually the opposite of my terms.
Maybe I got older and missed changes in how Google works... possible. It's just at this point Google is nothing more than
Every day I have to wrap quotes around my search terms because they flat out get ignored. They get a strike through line below the results. They give you what is popular not what is accurate. Even still with quotes you get back things that are vaguely related further polluting things.
They give you what is popular not what is accurate.
Actually they give you what they think is relevant to you based on your profile. It's funny seeing the people who are most against tracking are the same people who complain that results they get are popular rather than relevant to them.
"Google should return results for what you type, not for what is "relevant" to their model of you."
And this is where things fuck up. When they try to psychoanalyze people, to cater to "feelings" (which ads do, and Google follows), when they get into all of this sentimental bullshit, this is where things get fucked up.
This kind of bullshit has brought down empires. Ancient China (not to be confused with the modern era) was a powerful and mighty empire, and perhaps the most technologically adv
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Google is close to useless (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously, there was a time when Google seemed to know what I meant when I searched for something. It was kind of uncanny but damn was it useful.
These days when I specifically enter a set of search terms, it is not just not unheard of but quite common that Google will present me not just with search results that DON'T include one or more of my terms but actually the opposite of my terms.
Maybe I got older and missed changes in how Google works... possible. It's just at this point Google is nothing more than
Re: (Score:5, Interesting)
Every day I have to wrap quotes around my search terms because they flat out get ignored. They get a strike through line below the results. They give you what is popular not what is accurate. Even still with quotes you get back things that are vaguely related further polluting things.
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They give you what is popular not what is accurate.
Actually they give you what they think is relevant to you based on your profile. It's funny seeing the people who are most against tracking are the same people who complain that results they get are popular rather than relevant to them.
Re:Google is close to useless (Score:2)
Google should return results for what you type, not for what is "relevant" to their model of you.
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"Google should return results for what you type, not for what is "relevant" to their model of you."
And this is where things fuck up. When they try to psychoanalyze people, to cater to "feelings" (which ads do, and Google follows), when they get into all of this sentimental bullshit, this is where things get fucked up.
This kind of bullshit has brought down empires. Ancient China (not to be confused with the modern era) was a powerful and mighty empire, and perhaps the most technologically adv