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billiam0202@lemmy.world 5 days agoThey said “useful,” they didn’t say “relevant.”
In this case, “useful” means “the most results we can get paid to show you without you going to a different website.”
Xanza@lemm.ee 5 days ago
I’m really tired of this narrative. Far be it from me to defend a billion dollar company, but I’ve been using Google since its inception. For literally as long as its been available, and the issue people have with Google is that as a company they changed the way they do search over a decade ago, and people tend to not realize it.
Google went from returning information about “restaurants” when searched, because it was relevant to the search, to assuming you likely want to know what restaurants are in your area when you search for it. Therefore it pivoted from a relevancy based search engine to a contextual based search engine. Google attempts to interpret what you mean when searching for something and provides results rather than just throwing results at you simply because they’re relevant to the search terms used. And people are so fucking mad at them for trying to make search better.
Have they done a good job? Not really. Should they be literally crucified at the fucking cross for attempting to interpret results rather than just throw a bunch of shit at you and rely on the users technical ability to filter data? Not really…
Long story short, people need to take a fuckin’ chill pill when it comes at least to Google search results.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Well this is just flat out wrong.
The fact that people started appending “Reddit” to their search terms to find answers to what they wanted to know would probably be a gigantic indicator that Google’s results without it were less than helpful.
A useful search engine returns the most relevant result the user wants as fast as possible. An advertising company wants its users to look at as many ads as they can for as long as they’ll tolerate them. Thus it’s apparent the goals of Google (the search engine) are diametrically opposed to the goals of Alphabet (the advertising company).
So yes, it’s in the best interest of Google’s bottom line to figure out how many ads they can show you (read: before you stop using Google altogether) until they show what might be relevant to you.