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You 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.

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zatanas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Agreed. For me, making it so that the search engine ignores -string was one of the biggest set backs.

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- REdOG@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  the search engine ignores -string
  
  WHAT? Why would they do that? WTF no wonder…
  
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  - gosling@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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    towerful@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!
    
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  - corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m still pissed over removing +words. Like, G+ is gone, guys, so revert that mess.
    
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Bipta@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Wait, what? On Google??

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- lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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  - cschreib@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
    
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