Google Search Is Dying (dkb.io)
from PlanterTree@discuss.tchncs.de to degoogle@lemmy.ml on 17 Nov 15:03
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/49080758

If anyone tells you google search is the best engine, this article has counter-arguments.

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PlanterTree@discuss.tchncs.de on 17 Nov 15:42 next collapse

I can suggest marginalia search as an alternative, it is sponsored by NLNET and based in europe. nlnet.nl/news/2023/20231016-marginalia.html

JoMiran@lemmy.ml on 17 Nov 15:43 next collapse

Feb 14, 2022

PlanterTree@discuss.tchncs.de on 17 Nov 15:45 next collapse

It has not gotten any better since then?

stringere@sh.itjust.works on 17 Nov 18:21 collapse

Start of AI generated shitsites?

mindbleach@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 08:40 collapse

I’d be interested to see if reddit has “peaked” since then.

TomMasz@piefed.social on 17 Nov 17:01 next collapse

I haven’t heard anyone say Google is the best in a very long time. But people keep using it because they either don’t know or don’t like change. Deals to make it the default in many browsers certainly help keep it going.

non_burglar@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 15:33 next collapse

Google search has been shit for several years, this isn’t a shock.

pennomi@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 15:44 next collapse

I know there are search engines that are better than Google, but it’s becoming mathematically impossible to make a truly good search engine these days. Basically everyone is creating infinite AI generated content… and all that content is optimized for computers to read, not humans.

We need a fundamental shift in how we find information, and I’m not sure what that solution will be.

jjjalljs@ttrpg.network on 17 Nov 21:52 next collapse

People have suggested web rings, but most people don’t care much.

Most users are kind of learned helplessness and don’t really try much different.

mindbleach@sh.itjust.works on 18 Nov 08:39 collapse

Math isn’t the problem, when you search “tetris attack snes” and the results are all “tetris,” and then clicking “did you mean what you actually wrote?” returns “nothing on the internet resembles those three words, you freak.”

someguy3@lemmy.world on 17 Nov 16:19 next collapse

Article is from 2022-02 and the last I heard is that Google search is up.

Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Nov 09:41 collapse

Can’t there be an alternative like a user-curated search engine? Users could label their favorite sites with the proper keywords and then the community could up/downvote the results for quality control.

heftig@beehaw.org on 18 Nov 10:52 collapse

Would be just as vulnerable to automated SEO unless there’s a significant barrier to being able to label and vote, such as invitation-only groups.

And don’t we have this already, almost? Filter Mastodon hashtags for links or add UI for hashtags to Lemmy. Or use full text search.