Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

Re:Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: ... by polote on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @07:11PM (#31021472)

I don't feel like ranking results according to a query makes a lot of sense nowadays. Google works pretty well that it is almost always able to give you results that are relevant to your query.

But where Google fails and other search engine is to show results that are relevant to the user.

As some comments have said here for the query "python throw exception" some people want to get the official python doc when others want a snippet and when other want a tutorial, and some want other things. The fact that there is only one first result and it is the same for everyone IS the issue.

In my personal experience Google works very well for code queries much better than any queries on SEO topics

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Re:Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: ... by BolexNOLA on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @07:14PM (#31021480)

> But we’re Google fails…is to show results that are relevant to the user

This is going to sound tongue-in-cheek but I mean it with all sincerity: isn’t it wild given the data they hoover up?

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Re:Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: ... by polote on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @07:21PM (#31021528)

Maybe, but compared to other they don't do worse

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Re:Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: ... by swethmandava on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:48PM (#31022148)

You're exactly right. Google tends to regress to the mean - what do most people want to see as their first result? but You.com allows you to prefer sources that you'd personally like to see first

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