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The Verge shows how Google search is useless (www.theverge.com)
submitted 6 months ago by sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The Verge published this spam article about the "best printers of 2024" to demonstrate how terrible Google's search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search "best printer" on Google.

I love a good, informative troll.

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[–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

yes i also noticed google search is absolute trash lately. so i switched to searx and life is better. i only go to google for street view and reverse image search now.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For reverse image search, Google is also becoming more and more useless. I usually also look on Yandex to identify fake profiles using photos of other people.

[–] palordrolap@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Where does Yandex's money go these days?

[–] mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk 1 points 6 months ago

I don’t know. Just noticed that their normal Russian web search redirects to “Dzen”, whereas images.yandex.ru is still showing as “Yandex”.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Kagi is still working super well for me.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Searx instances always seem to be blocked by the engines they rely on though?

[–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago

i havent seen bad results at least. i use one with a good rating/latency listed on searx.space

[–] Kata1yst@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

I host my own to avoid running into timeouts, fairly easy