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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by Clockface12 on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:26PM (#29394732)
Yeah. Absolutely infuriating if you specifically use quotes and you get all sorts of dross not containing what you're looking for. Clearly they have figured out in some way that giving the end user what they want does not maximise income.

Google News too has become flaky. Often does not find stuff you know is there, or finds it one day, but not another. Hrmph.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by grangerg on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @03:20PM (#29396970)
I'm in a similar boat with the "Google Now" feed on Android. When I say "not interested", it fails to note that as expected, and I see the same news "story" pop up (usually different sites, but occasionally the exact same site!). It's likely related to the fact that it almost NEVER gets the subject/topic correct, so I can never use that option.

There was a time I thought I'd trained it to stop telling me about what celebrity said or wore what, but those are creeping back into my feed.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by systemBuilder on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @08:49PM (#29399736)
YouTube has started showing me the same videos over and over again! I keep telling it I don't want to see this content because I've seen it before and it keeps forgetting!

I absolutely hate the Google has changed the semantics of search so that it doesn't really pay attention to your keywords unless you quote them. In Google's mind you're not serious about a keyword until you quote it! Garbage!

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