Google Search Is Dying

Re:Google Search Is Dying by orost on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:27AM (#35039777)

The most tragic casualty of this is the ancient wisdom of just google your tech issues. It doesn't work any more! All you get is page upon page of auto-generated help sites that pretend to have solutions for your exact problem but are all actually the same list of generic tips (restart your computer! update your drivers!)

I can sort through it with enough effort, but it's a disaster for non-tech people who could muddle through their computer problems before but now just get hopelessly stuck in the Google Search swamp every time.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by 000ooo000 on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:46AM (#35039902)

Look on the bright side; we're the last generation(s) of folk capable of operating tech at any level beyond what the UX people at FAANG will allow one to reach. The bridge has been burned behind us. Yay job security.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by andrewstuart on Monday March 06, 2023 @06:47AM (#35039912)

Stack Overflow is to blame for that.

With the best of intentions they make their data open, resulting in hundreds of clone sites regurgitating the stack overflow data, on sites with names like “ProblemGeek” and “NerdAnswer”.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by ivanjermakov on Monday March 06, 2023 @09:45AM (#35041585)

I mean, SO is still there... Just limit your search result to it, e.g. "java enum ordinal site:stackoverflow.com" (or others from stackexchange family).

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by dpkirchner on Monday March 06, 2023 @10:13PM (#35051080)

Google could solve this -- surely their engineers see the clone sites all the time.

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