Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?

Re:Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding informati... by duckfruit on Sunday March 14, 2021 @07:43PM (#26460741)

Absolutely! The top hits are often SEO’d to death and so devoid of quality I often find myself appending “Reddit” to a lot search queries just to get any sort of relevant results.

“best espresso grinders reddit” -> good, relatively unbrigaded discussions of pros and cons from r/coffee

“Best espresso grinder” -> plenty of “best of 2021” type articles that are patently paid for and gamed, often by publications that have nothing to do with coffee or by some kind of purpose built “www.bestcoffeegrinder2021.com” sites that don’t exactly engender trust. Most of these are so obviously written by low quality contractors or bots that it’s somewhat worrisome that they cant be filtered out by google.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding informati... by userbinator on Sunday March 14, 2021 @07:51PM (#26460815)

I feel like asking a heavily commercialised consumption-driven machine what the "best" or "recommended" anything is, is just asking to be manipulated. I share your distrust of sites with "best", other superlatives, or the current year in their name. The proliferation of new and strange TLDs like "xyz" and similar have only added to the confusion.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding informati... by mclightning on Monday March 15, 2021 @03:34AM (#26463397)

hahaha I do the same! Especially for any product/consumer goods, there is no alternative really.

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