And ~90% of google searches now gives you 10 videos as answers to any query rather than just the web pages that have been turned into videos because youtube makes them more money than regular ads. Assholes.
Always open to new horizons, though—are there non-Google search products that you find to consistently work better?
2 days ago I was making multiple searches looking for the websites of specific hotels and spa facilities, and none of them showed up in the first 4 pages of results, even when searching by exact name.
Out of desperation I switched back to Google, and, surprisingly, it was willing to give me what I was looking for on the first page. (But not as first result, of course..)
True, but DDG seems, at the very least, no more afflicted than other engines. If I'm supposed to pay for a search engine, I expect something better than DDG.
I still miss something for quickly finding random facts like "how long to boil an egg" but for programming the above works quite well.
All you're missing on Kagi is a question mark:
Maybe I didn't configure Kagi enough? But I don't want to configure a search engine.
Have you considered the difference between quantity and quality?
Which also reinforces already declining literacy rates.
Gemini can be a powerful model but it's just infested with the stink of Google
"how to configure arducopter gps"
9 crappy videos before they figure maybe they should link to the documentation after all.
To give them some credit, at least that search did not also come with a crappy AI summary that is broken, not applicable and wastes valuable space and bandwidth.
edit: corrected count, I missed one. And a very prominent 'see all' link before the actual one.
I got an AI summary that takes up half the screen, which doesn’t even give the right answer, then 5 YouTube videos with thumbnails and extra crud (most not even related to the question but just mention “ArduPilot” somewhere on the title), then half a page of “Other people searched for..”
Then about 3 “screens” down the page I get the ArduPilot homepage and then a bunch of embedded Reddit/Facebook discussions about ArduPilot in general, none about setting up GPS.
Google has *completely* lost the plot.
I presume you want that to be the default, but I’m sure you understand that Google can’t grant your wish, because it’s subject to market forces.
Optionally with a custom CSS rule to block the starting video block: [data-layout="videos"]
AI summary and videos dominating it.
Videos, on the other hand, are a cancer.
The google ones for me seem to be talking about something unrelated to what I'm looking for a significant percent of the time because it interprets it as a much more popular concept that looks like my query if you squint very hard. Other times it pulls up seo-spam tier answers that are plainly wrong.
I have to say AI summaries work pretty well for me on Google and my overall subjective sense is the results have been getting better the past 1-2 years.
Here's what I get for your exact search and it looks pretty reasonable?
The very first response I got with quotes was this HN post.
The very first response I got without quotes took me to the docs here: https://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/common-positioning-landing...
I sometimes wonder how much other browsers, countries, or languages play into the search results for a particular user.
Every time I read someone complaining about Google search results, I try to use another search engine for awhile, just to see if I'm missing something. Every time I do this, the alternatives are awful and I shake my head and go back to Google search.