searching a specific problem, on what search engine it is..

no satisfactory answer. what else is there? other than just asking questions on lemmy?

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[–] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

Google has gotten tremendously awful at the basic fundamentals of searching.

So you've got this stupid AI thing of theirs that thinks it's helpful by giving you its thoughts about what it thinks about what you've searched for. It also brings up relatively irrelevant things.

Then you've got another block of some of the dumbest things that get asked. You know the "People also asked about..." section which is just an annoying rabbit hole that degrades your intelligence just by reading what's there.

Then you've got about the first page plastered with ads and suggestions that have nothing to do with what you're looking for. Forcing you to go through pages until maybe something is there.

Ain't it wonderful? /s

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago

    Or my recent experience: the search returns fewer than 10 results total. But change my search a tiny bit and suddenly I get the normal endless results, which literally contain the search terms I previously included in quotes.

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