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Re:Google Search Is Dying by Lascaille on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @02:18PM (#30351296)
It isn't so much that 'google doesn't know how to filter them out' but there's nothing left after having filtered them out.

Nobody is producing real content that isn't behind a paywall.

There's nothing to find.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by Gigachad on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:08PM (#30353506)
There is real content being drowned out by autogenerated SEO crap. I tried looking for rice cookers which didn't have non stick coatings, they do exist and some blog posts which talk about them but the top results are all stores which have just a generic category for rice cooker but generate 200 duplicate pages with the title changed to exactly match whatever your search term is. So it says "Ceramic rice cooker" but shows their generic listing of PTFE rice cookers.

Google search is constantly improving but the SEO spammers are improving faster.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by willis936 on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @02:56PM (#30351785)
I know this isn't true because I've used google for nearly two decades with good results. That information hasn't evaporated, it's just buried.
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