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Why Google Search Is Falling Apart?

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An AI generated blogpost + podcast complaining about the state of google search while stealing from other people (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGVk2KVokQ) ironic.

One of the reasons that Google Search is falling apart is that it is filled with this kind of stolen, AI-generated content.

This post is just a 100% stolen AI summary of a popular YouTuber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGVk2KVokQ

Either this is a transcript of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGVk2KVokQ, or vice versa. Exactly the same points are being made, at least.

I've seen that recently after watching part of a YouTube video about something and thinking oh this is crap, I'll find some written article - only to start reading the exact same thing a few seconds later on an apparently unrelated blog.

the images are from the video as well.

The "What’s Causing the Decline?" portion completely ignores cause #1: Gaming your Google ranking is a key element in dropshipping and similar shady businesses. It's hard to keep your search accurate, when there's millions to be made if you successfully break the search and get your snakeoil to the top

Yes, it's still dying / falling apart / getting worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26460092 (2021) [Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719 (2022) [Google Search Is Dying]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36564042 (2023) [Google search's death by a thousand cuts]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39040559 (2024) [Google Search Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find]

I can't say I have any real problems with it, though I do use adblock.

Given the "95.32% share on mobile and 81.95% on desktop" I presume it works for other people too. I have to admit when I see the "Google is dying" articles I read it as people like moaning about everything rather than it's actually dying. I see since the first of those links it's died itself to another $500m in market cap and will probably keep dying in that manner.

That said I do find Perplexity better for some stuff.

I didn't read the article, so it's LLM origins are unknown to me (plus, I don't use YouBoob, so I wouldn't know about this plagiarism anyway).

But the decline of goggle is clear, to users. I'm pretty sure major share holders of goggle corpse think it's doing just fine.

One should always refer to this famous quote by Dr. Frankenfurter, of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when evaluating claims of unsuitability:

"I didn't make it for you!"

What makes anyone thing goggle corpse would ever make anything for any purpose other than the increasing profits of the goggle corpse?

They certainly didn't make it for you...

I actually haven't seen it recently, so they may have removed it, but I'm still annoyed by whoever decided to have those "people also searched for" etc. boxes appear a few seconds after the page loads, leading to me accidentally clicking them.

It's one of those anti-features I cannot imagine even a malicious reason for. It's not like doing that was profitable, it's just really annoying.

I have no idea how that even got launched, but thankfully, it seems to have disappeared now. When I see a feature like that roll out, it really makes me question the decision-making at the company.

I can filter out ads. What is a bummer is the lack of relevance for many search results. Is there a search engine that returns more relevant search results?

If you are willing to pay for it, I've been using Kagi for more than a year and usually my old Google-fu techniques work 95% of the time to find what I want (using "quoted text", - operands, etc.).

Search is probably my most used service on the web, paying for it felt weird in the beginning after so many years of "free" search but given how bad Google has been when I compare the same query in both I have completely accepted that it's worth the price, have been a very happy customer.

The duckduckgo results for "thinnest mini fridge" or far better for me.

If I don't know exactly what I am looking for perplexity.ai is best for me. If I know (e.g. company logo png) nothing beats google for me so far.

For using google without it's UI, you can use SearXNG: https://github.com/searxng/searxng

... or this little PHP script I made: http://ni.4a.si./sijanec/r/tree/prog/sear.php/index.php demo: http://searphp.4a.si.

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