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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by zerd on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:28PM (#29394760)
Google now also has an extreme recency bias. Most things I search for will give top results for recent SEO optimized blog posts/Youtube videos instead of established authoritative resources. If you search for something that happens to overlap with a recent movie name, good luck, it'll drown. And I constantly "have" "to" "search" "like" "this" because Google thinks it knows better than me.
Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by gausswho on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @04:11PM (#29397512)
While I also am annoyed how much I need to enquoten to refine search, in most cases I wish it upped the bias further. My default search applies the 'Past year' filter because otherwise I get lots of outdated answers.
Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by mohanmcgeek on Friday December 03, 2021 @11:44AM (#29432019)
For some cases where I know that the recent results are going to be verbose spam, I set the filter to before:2015