Re:Google search takes 7 seconds on certain queries
by arpa on Sunday August 04, 2019 @03:19AM
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It has been becoming crap a long time now. In the past few years i just need to include, well, everything in quotes just to get somewhat relevant results instead of very generic ones. For me it began with their removal of the + search operator (to boost google+ organic traffic from google). Also removal of boolean operators. Also very, very aggressive typo fixing (i meant "Brose Wollis" not "Bruce Wills" god damn it). I think that google home is just the latest thing that furthers googles' exclusive catering to the lowest common denominator - the people who use google as DNS and fail to do even that. I guess there's not that much of ad revenue from power users.
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Re:Google search takes 7 seconds on certain queries
by DanBC on Sunday August 04, 2019 @03:50AM
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> For me it began with their removal of the + search operator (to boost google+ organic traffic from google).
Google say they removed it because most searches that included a plus operator were using it wrong.
https://search.googleblog.com/2011/11/search-using-your-term...
> In most cases, Google’s algorithms make things better for our users - but in some rare cases, we don’t find what you were looking for. In the past, we provided users with the “+” operator to help you search for specific terms. However, we found that users typed the “+” operator in less than half a percent of all searches, and two thirds of the time, it was used incorrectly. A couple of weeks ago we removed the “+” operator, encouraging the use of the double quotes, which are more likely to be used correctly.
I'd be intersted to know how often the "quotes" are used correctly.
Re:Google search takes 7 seconds on certain queries
by rightbyte on Sunday August 04, 2019 @06:37AM
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0,5% of the queries used "+" so they removed it? Feels like a dogmatic "data driven" UX change for the sake of change. The interesting number would be how much it was used when the first queries failed and gave to much answers.