The problem isn't just that the internet has become more SEO-oriented and encumbered with low-value clickbait websites -- it's also that Google doesn't listen to instructions the way it used to.
Google started slipping when it began assuming that it knows better than you do. For instance, when the exact search operator (" ") stopped working.
I'd take the Google of 2014 over the Google of 2023 without thinking twice, and I think that I'm not alone in this.
Google started slipping when it began assuming that it knows better than you do. For instance, when the exact search operator (" ") stopped working.
I'd take the Google of 2014 over the Google of 2023 without thinking twice, and I think that I'm not alone in this.