Wait, what? On Google??
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Calyhre@lemmy.world 11 months agoYou can even see the decline in posts and votes before GPT became mainstream. This definitely look more like search engine failing to get rid of those cheap copycats.
Bipta@kbin.social 11 months ago
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 11 months ago
On Google and on Duck Duck Go too. On DDG you can’t get rid of the over-optimized websites anymore even if you use -“website name”. Luckily -site:address still works.
cschreib@programming.dev 11 months ago
That’s crazy. Google/DDG bloat from SEO websites had already driven me out a while ago, so I hadn’t noticed. I’ve been using Kagi for a few months now, and I find I can trust my search results again. Being able to permanently downgrade or even block a given website is an awesome feature, I would recommend it just for that.
zatanas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Agreed. For me, making it so that the search engine ignores -string was one of the biggest set backs.
REdOG@lemmy.world 11 months ago
WHAT? Why would they do that? WTF no wonder…
gosling@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hyphen (-) means you don’t want to see this word, while words surrounded by quotes (") means you want these phrases exactly.
Most symbols are also ignored, which is great for an average user but terrible for programmers.
towerful@programming.dev 11 months ago
Yeh, suddenly you need to know what the language calls the operator within the context you want to use it.
At which point, you probably don’t need to Google the symbol!
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I’m still pissed over removing +words. Like, G+ is gone, guys, so revert that mess.