Every Google result now looks like an ad

Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by freehunter on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:42PM (#22111311)

I find that a lot too. Trying to search for anything Rails related always shows Rails 3/4 results before Rails 5/6. If Google really knew that much about me, they should notice I always end my searching by clicking on a Rails 5/6 result (because those are the versions I use) and every time I land on a Rails 3 or 4 result I almost always click back and try again. Same with Python when I get 2.x results, with all their data they should know I've used 3.x for years.

If companies want to track me and build profiles on me, I accept that I can't stop that without refusing to use their products and every site that's integrated with it (Google Analytics, Adwords, etc). But if they're going to do it, at least use that information to help me. What's the point otherwise?

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by KingFelix on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @02:18PM (#22120981)

or at least filter out results that are irrelevant. They are lacking the ability to remove dated results when you are looking for the most recent.

I know you can manually filter results, but why show 10 year old answers to software that gets updated so frequent! I am sure there are other areas where this exists, dated results should be pushed back a few pages.

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @04:07PM (#22111576)

You click back.

That means you see a second helping of ads.

You still use Google.

From their perspective this is probably working perfectly.

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