Google execs admit users are 'not quite happy' with search experience after Reddit blackouts
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Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

  • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    the new results are also worse than the first batch in my experience.

    FWIW I thought the same. Seems like every search engine turns to doo with time.

      • ArcticCircleSystem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I feel like that would be more easily gameable. SearXNG relies on results from other engines and there’s this one distributed one that’s apparently basically useless for most searches. Do with that info what you will. ~Nai

        • QuazarOmega@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          My wish would be for a free search engine, not a meta search engine, but it doesn’t seem like there is much interest for that, mainly because it highly demanding in terms of complexity, but most importantly resources to run it.

          I feel like that would be more easily gameable.

          I’m sorry, what does that mean?

            • QuazarOmega@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 year ago

              I kind of doubt that they would optimize for an underdog in the search engine space, they’d be spending money on something fundamentally unprofitable, also because there’s going to be a high overlap between the users of such an engine and those who would use an ad/content blocker