Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything?

CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• diffcalculus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I smell a load of shit from OP

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  • abs_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like google ain’t great, but like… What were you searching for?

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• douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve had this happen more often recently. An hour, or multiple hours, isn’t unexpected anymore with search engines (not just Google, but Google is the worst offender).

  It’s incredibly frustrating.

  My job & hobbies involves research 20-30 hours a week, over the last 15+ years. It’s been a gradual decline in quality and usability since 2016 or so. I started complaining about it on forums and reddit, and not many people noticed, or thought the same. Only in the last 5 years or so have I seen others take notice, and even make articles about it.

  It’s a real thing, and those of us that do a lot of research for real information that isn’t just today’s news feel it first.

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    An hour, or multiple hours, isn’t unexpected anymore with search engines

    I’m not debating that search engines are not as good today as they were in the past, but I got to push back hard against the OP, as well as yourself, as far as the temporal measurement in hours, for trying to do a single search.

    That’s just not believable. You and the op have to give some real world examples of that.

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    • UnityDevice@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’d tell you what the movie was, but they’d have to search for it and don’t want to waste an hour.

      Jokes aside, I believe them, I spent close to an hour recently finding a YouTube I knew existed but I could only remember vague details. Ended up having crawl back months though my YouTube history in the end.

      It used to be that you could just describe a movie to Google like "movie where " and it would be really good at finding that movie even if it was some obscure one. Now if you’re trying to find that one movie you saw years ago where you just remember one scene, be prepared to spend that hour.

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      • KeenFlame@feddit.nu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t believe them. And I don’t believe that it’s to save us an hour, but because it’s hyperbolic

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• Echrichor@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Strongly suspected PEBCAK error

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• funktion@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah come on OP let us test what you’re saying.

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