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Comment by stiray

As far as I am concerned google already dropped the ball. For 2 years I am getting useless results immediately when I am not searching for something very generic. I am leaving shadow of a doubt that there might be a reason that I am never logged in and I am cleaning all the tracking cookies. I have skipped to self-hosted searx instance and I get much better results when they are aggregated.

I believe that the whole problem comes from their AI. Since most of people on planet are searching for things that are highly non-technical, the AI is learned to give them priority over the technical documentation etc. which almost nobody uses. I am also experiencing that the sites that I know are there, are not returned at all (or somewhere on 100th page).

I would really love to see the google search as it was 20 years back. At that time it was far more useful, quite frankly I didn't see any improvement in precision of search results from those times, it only went to the worse.

parent stiray 5 years ago

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