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Re:Google search results have more human help than you think... by amelius on Monday November 18, 2019 @03:35PM (#21567897)
Perhaps the answer is simply that you have disabled user-tracking (either explicitly in Google's settings or by disabling cookies), so Google doesn't know how to serve you best, and you end up with the best possible answer for the "average" person.
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Re:Google search results have more human help than you think... by JohnFen on Monday November 18, 2019 @07:43PM (#21569748)
I've actually found that the search results get better when Google can't customize the search results for the particular user. It's still not great, though.

For a few years, I've been blaming the reduction in the quality of search results on this attempt to "know how to serve me best". I still think that's a huge part of the cause, but I'm not so sure it explains everything.

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