It's Not Just You... Google SUCKS Now.

Google's search engine is broken. What happened to Google Search? It feels like its getting harder to find the info you need with google search, and other AI tools that were supposed to help are making things worse. Tons of SEO, affiliate marketers, and ads have flooded the search page, how can we avoid it? Will chat GPT 4o save the day?
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[HipyoTech]

Howdy hey, this vid is a bit different than normal but I really wanted to make it - so lmk if you wanna see more hipyo rambles.
Edit: this vid was made before the google summit and further AI integrations into search (I'll talk about those later)

[xxxxx]

The biggest issue I have had with Google lately is more YouTube. Why is the YouTube search so bad now? It gives me like 10 videos on the subject I searched and then it's just my recommendations tab. Like huh?

[kevkevpurple]

The search: "How to fix loose connection in headphone jack"

The article: "A headphone jack is an adapter for a TRS cable..."
_scrolls_
"...TRS cables are a common method to transmit data, especially audio..."
_scrolls_
*website subscription needed*
_disables javascript and reloads_
"...Sometimes, 2.5mm TRS cables can have loose connections with their adapter..."
_scrolls_
"...might need to replace the cable..."
_scrolls_
"...can get professional help or replace the device entirely..."
*what?* _scrolls_
"...A good audio cable to use is [affiliate promotion]"
_closes laptop_

[Tennoken]

It has gotten so bad that I have to use Google, Reddit, and Youtube to cross reference each other to make sure that the information is moderately accurate.

[mlyresk]

I'm a veterinarian and I regularly have issues with people coming in and quoting actual MISinformation they found online. I work in ER, so your dive into cat-safe plants is a regular issue we have. It's become a serious medical problem. Google searches will tell people to give medications to their pets that are fatal, or cause liver or kidney failure, seizures, etc. I have no idea how to fix this, but it's nearing epidemic levels.

[stonerhino]

Just FYI:

"As of September 2021, Google no longer allows users to completely exclude search terms by using a minus sign (-) before them"

[minementalx]

Google dropped its company motto "Don't be evil" in 2015. So there is that.

[tparadox]

It's not "dash" in this case, it's "minus". But also pretty much none of the operator tricks work in Google anymore because they are more concerned with guessing what you really want and what is the most profitable to show you than actually giving you what you said you wanted.

[AmiCestLaVie]

Absolutely hate using google now. I used to be able to find answers to very specific questions quite easily, but now it's like the algorithm assumes that if you didn't search something super common, that you meant to, and will only show you search results for that very common problem. And the AI answer it creates at the top of your results is even worse - it just talks around your problem instead of providing a solution, or worse, gives you false, misleading, or incredibly biased information. But what other search platform are we meant to use??

[shApYT]

The real way is finding some random guy with 40k views ranting about the hyper specific topic you are researching, and that guy only makes videos on that one topic. But Google is trying to ruin that too now. If you search, they literarily won't show what you searched for, instead filling it with rubbish that is NOT SEARCH!

[RocketboyX]

Now do how Youtube is more than happy to show advertisments that would be FTC violations if they were on TV, or against their own TOS.

[FrvrTmrrw]

Is it finally time to stop telling
people to "just google it" when they ask a question.

[Lulleebee]

If you’re wondering why most companies drop their ethics that they seemingly upheld in the past is because there’s either almost no competition so they can get away with more, or they grew so big that the ethical concerns are seen as a money loss to them

[ytmgsjoss]

The data scraping that AI does is so flawed considering anyone can say anything on the internet and that'll be factored into the research

[scofrona]

What has also become nightmarishly difficult is finding WRITTEN reviews and how-to guides. A lot of time when I'm trying to look something up I don't want to open some 10+ minute algorithm bait youtube video to get a TLDR, and sometimes I want to be able to follow along with written instructions so I'm not pausing if I'm slow or waiting for the video host to reach a step.

The other thing with written guides is they can be updated quickly and easily, and you can search keywords. Until video processing and language recognition/translation become good enough, you can't exactly search a youtube or tiktok video... and that's assuming the person making the video even knows what they're talking about in the first place or if they're just repeating information from another source they watched.

So yeah, we're stuck in an era of misguided clickbait regurgitations of information, whether it's AI generated slop or not.

[Talcticol]

If this video gets taken down it's canon.

[BinkyTheToaster]

Amazon's search is just as bad; you can say "7.5 gallon trashcan" and you'll get a 50-gallon behemoth in the search, within 10 results of the top. Which wasn't 7.5 (or even close to) gallon.

[krim]

Google and YouTube search have plummeted in quality, very noticeably over the last year or so. When I search for a topic, why am I getting served barely related shorts and multiple sections of unrelated videos “for me”?

[AlphaMachina]

Amazon is ATROCIOUS nowadays. It's so entirely overrun by Chinese junk that it's almost pointless searching for some things on there anymore, and you certainly can't rely on the reviews.

[guiltygamerxrd]

The reddit trick is what I use but often what google highlights as the answer is wrong, you just have to go into the thread itself and see what people are saying. It is true that, part of searching for info now is figuring out what sources are even giving you reliable info and not just either lying or trying to make money off of you. This is why it takes me days or weeks to decide on what to buy when it comes to stuff like PC peripherals. I have to find time to read like 10 reddit threads and watch 5 youtube videos and wade through user reviews to figure out what I want to spend my money on.