Why Google Search is Falling Apart.

Pls Google do something.

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[tomasplunksnis]

The only good thing about Google search is that it searches Reddit better than Reddit’s search when it comes to older posts

[alexandretherrien]

Let’s not forget about YouTube’s search functionality. These days it feels like you can’t search a topic without being bombarded with irrelevant shorts and “you might also like” videos.

[lokifishmarz]

Google search started turning into garbage when they replaced proper Boolean searches with their 'we think you meant this' approach. I can literally search using quotation marks, 'AND', and '-' but will get back PAGES of results that have nothing to do with what I searched for.

[JuliannaGeorgiana]

This is my beef about Amazon…it’s becoming very difficult to shop for something specific, because it wants to show me everything even remotely related to my search…it’s very annoying !

[anonymous-vhur]

Bro has exposed literally every social media platform so accurately. Mad respect

[Shahriar]

Google is creating the very mistake they used to overtake Yahoo. They are forgetting that it's a search engine, not an advertising billboard.
The biggest lesson of history is, nobody gets their lessons from history!

[jaynaidoo]

That sinking feeling you get when someone proves something you've known for a while and that there's not much you could do to change it 😢

[cheezemonkeyeater]

I work in SEO and I've absolutely noticed the difference. It's essentially meaningless to even try and optimize your site at this point because you end up with generic slop that isn't engaging to customers and then you lose out to people who can just buy their way to the top results anyhow. As a company, we've had to move away from SEO and more into other types of promotion just to make our clients competitive. We're basically more of a traditional marketing company now than a digital one.

[fabiozfortnite]

The same thing happens to YouTube. When you search something on YouTube, maybe the top 5 videos will be related, but the rest will be just recommended videos. They don't care if you find "what you asked for", they just want you to stay as long as possible on the app.

[ToiletGrenade]

YouTube search is even worse now, you get like 3 results related to your search and then it just turns into suggested rubbish completely irrelevant to what you searched for. It's unusable.

[kaecatlady]

Calling it "borderline" broken was very... gentle of you, Arun.

Google Search IS broken--and even the search results after the ads are often useless, no matter what the search term.

When Google got rid of their "Don't be evil" motto, they really, really weren't kidding.

[corbeau-_-]

The thing I've hated for years is searching for something, buying it and then for months getting ads on the thing I already got...

[spindriftdrinker]

Once you learn the concept of "enshitification" - you start to see it everywhere. I remember when Barnes and Noble first made their big move to destroy mom and pop bookstores back in the late 1980s- early 90s (pre-amazon of course). They installed all kinds of comfortable seating and tables. People used the stores like libraries.
Once they achieved their dominant status - they removed all the comfortable seating.

[priyamsingh]

Looking forward to the day when ChatGpt starts typing 3 Ads before giving the answer to my question.

[MaximeOnDev]

Google after pixel 8 review : 😩
Google after pixel 9 review : ☺️
Google after this review : ☠️☠️☠️

[danielwoods]

I used to enjoy shopping online because I felt like the search gave me access to more stores and also I could consciously choose to shop with smaller more independent retail businesses rather than the big chain stores, but it's almost impossible to do now. The search results are completely dominated by the big chain retailers, and you can scroll for pages and pages and not find any. It’s like hitting a brick wall and it’s taken the enjoyment out of it. I used to really enjoy finding a good independent retailer with good prices, good service and sometimes more unique higher quality products.

[Omaricon]

Another problem with Google is that it weighs newer articles over older articles, which means that info that is correct, but perhaps old, it might disappear beneath something newer, but less accurate.

[NightFoxx]

I just got to the point that I look for the word sponsored in my search and then purposefully NOT click on it. This is googles way of telling me I’m about to get scammed.

[jmsytbe]

I'm glad you mentioned what has become my single least favourite thing on the internet: Affiliate links, and the countless adverstisements disguised as "articles" that abuse them.
Finding something resembling an actual review of something is painfully difficult because of this, and trying to find comparative reviews / roundups (ie. "best <product> of 2024") is just straight up impossible; EVERY single search result is an ad disguised as an article.
If someone made me Dictator of the Internet, my first law would be requiring every article containing even a single affiliate link to have the words "THIS IS AN ADVERSTISEMENT, NOT A REVIEW" plastered on top of each page in giant unmissable font. The way affiliate links are being used today is nothing short of fraud, and should _absolutely_ be illegal.

[johnwarner]

Yesterday I Googled "How old was Burt Reynolds when he was in Smokey and the Bandit", and Google came back with Burt's Obituary (he died at 82), and tons of other information that had nothing to do with Smokey and the Bandit. This is happening more and more frequently, to the point where Google is becoming increasingly useless.