In addition, Googles search results have gone to shit. You used to be able to find what you needed (without drilling down with specific keywords) near the top of the first page. Now you usually have to go through a few pages to find anything close to what you want. You can thank the seo bullshit for this. So many shit filled articles now mostly written by “AI” clutter up the search results.
Neato@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
Also negative modifiers don’t work on Google. Quotation marks and the - are both useless so I cant be specific.
Beefytootz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah wtf is up with that? That’s what sold me on Google originally and now it’s gone or completely ignored. I’ve since switched to duckduckgo. I honestly couldn’t tell you if it was any better, but I’m so annoyed with Google results that anything’s better
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
On duckduckgo those are only suggestions that shape the results. They aren’t “ignored” but also aren’t enforced. You can search for things in quotes that don’t ever show up and put a minus sign on things that do show up.
It fucking infuriates me, but it is still better than Google.