Has search gotten worse? -

Is the quality of web search results getting worse?

  • Yes

    Votes: 401 92.8%
  • No

    Votes: 10 2.3%
  • IDK

    Votes: 21 4.9%

  • Total voters
    432

Michael Jacks0n

You know I'm bad, I'm bad.
kiwifarms.net
I mentioned this same exact thing several pages back: I fucking hate it when Google omits specific words I searched for, as that article points out...

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BootlegPopeye

kiwifarms.net
So I got the Brave Search invite yesterday. It's decent enough that I moved my device's browsers default search to it, but it still needs work. As someone else said, there is just one page of results right now. The layout reminds me of DDG:

bravesearch.png


Has a dark mode setting like DDG too. I would still like to see the ability to turn off 'news' at least on the results page and keep all of that in a separate tab. I haven't really heard others mention it, but I can't say I have ever been a fan of the side 'infobox' shit Google and others started a few years ago, since it relies on Wikipedia, hardly a reliable source, for it's information.

As far as censorship goes - typing 'nigger' or 'why are black people' and other old Google favorites from back in the day won't give you the fun suggestions we all fondly remember such as 'why are black people so loud'. With safe search off, it does not censor pornographic results (speaking for myself, this is maybe a form of censorship that doesn't bother me). I attempted some 'conspiratorial' searches and did not get a finger waging 'infobox' with a 'factcheck' from the coomer who runs snopes, which is a plus, but if Brave Search were to really take off I wonder how long it would last.
 

ToroidalBoat

Token Hispanic Friend
True & Honest Fan
kiwifarms.net
search: futurama 2nd episode airdate

results:

Futurama (season 2) - Wikipedia

Episodes — See also: List of Futurama episodes ... season, Title, Directed by, Written by, Original air date, Prod. ... Fry breaks up with Amy anyway upon returning to Earth, so she arranges another date that Fry is forced to attend.

List of Futurama episodes - Wikipedia

Season 2 (1999–2000) — Main article: Futurama (season 2). No. overall, No. in season, Title, Directed by, Written by, Original air date, Prod. code. 14, 1, "I Second That Emotion", Mark Ervin, Patric M. Verrone, November 21, 1999 ...

Futurama (a Titles & Air Dates Guide) - Epguides

2021/05/06 — A guide listing the titles AND air dates for episodes of the TV series Futurama. ... 2-9, 06 Feb 00, Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love. 19. 2-10, 13 Feb 00, Put Your Head on My Shoulder. 20. 2-11, 20 Feb 00, Lesser of Two ...

(and no answer at the top either like one may expect)
 

fuckidunno

kiwifarms.net
I appreciate the sentiment, but I'm not asking for an explanation. I know about search bubbling, search filtering, webcrawlers, SEO and astroturfing, pagerank manipulation, regional results, metasearch etc. I'm just trying to get a decent sample of everyone's own subjective opinion.
I appreciate BOTH parts of the conversation

SSF2T Old User 's insites are appreciated​

As to the question, yes - subjectively, over the past 25 years I have found searches to become less satisfyingly useful for me - though expectations and use strategies have changed for me no doubt.
 

totse

Not a spook, probably
kiwifarms.net
Brave Search beta is now live to the world! That means no more email invites for
early access. Just go to search.brave.com ( https://search.brave.com ) , and search
without a trace.
...
If you were one of the many to test drive Brave Search early access… Thank you!
Brave Search was always audacious. A private, independent, transparent search
engine… and a viable alternative to Google? We couldn’t have done it without you.
 

Michael Jacks0n

You know I'm bad, I'm bad.
kiwifarms.net
Ok, so I was scouring through the Youtubes for random shit to laugh at, and I found a really cringey SocJus BlueAnon Youtube channel that's so hilariously bad that it's like CollegeHumor. I nearly split my sides laughing at their woke videos, and I found something which raised an eyebrow (keep in mind this video was from 2018, and I remember Google search steadily declining since then):


The TL;DR is that Google's algorithm supposedly targets black people in inner cities negatively by giving them higher rates for insurance or hotels, or that it automatically removes job applications with black-sounding names. Remember, "allegedly" -- and they cite no sources nor give any proof of this.

And then this hilarious banger from 2019, which is so insanely retarded that it seems like a parody...


TL;DR - clueless negress Boomer doesn't know how cookies and targeted ads work, so must be the racist crakkkas oppressin' tha bruthas.

With that being said, it's definitely most likely that Alphabet kowtowed to the woke brigade to tweak their algorithms. Even though those aforementioned videos were from a fringe channel with barely any traction, it's probably just the tip of the iceberg, and no doubt plenty of other woketards lobbied to lobotomize Google. Also keep in mind that in the 1st video link, that genderqueer dyke with the nose ring announces herself as a representative for a local ACLU chapter -- thus it's highly plausible that the ACLU's commie tentacles have been strangling Google fairly recently.

EDIT - in regards to the negress Boomer in the 2nd video, I see plenty of "We have arrest records for [insert name]" Google ads when I search for literally any name, white-sounding or not.
 

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