Example?
"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.