When was the change? These pages were indexed by Google years ago, Google removed them obviously, and the search worked fine in the past.
You are saying one day you use your mobile phone for calling and the next day the device only work for calling 0800-*?
Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet
by loveparade on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:06PM
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It's not yesterday, it was 20 years ago when Google excelled at exact keyword matches. It has been a constant evolution away from that.
I hate the new Google as much as others, but if you don't adapt your search habits for 20 years when the whole ecosystem around you has been obviously changing, that's kind of on you. Just use another search engine that fits your use case. Personally I use Kagi and I haven't touched Google for the last year at all.
Does Kagi support queries like site, inurl, intitle, etc or have some similar capabilities?
Yes.
Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet
by entropyie on Thursday November 02, 2023 @08:20AM
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Yep, it's time to give up on Google... Both the search engine and the company.
Kagi
Fastmail
Rsync.net
These are worth paying for.
Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet
by genewitch on Thursday November 02, 2023 @11:57PM
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seconding fastmail - i was grandfathered at $5 a year for years, i pay $15 now i think - and i am probably going to pay for kagi (or ilk). I run nextcloud, after trying other things like syncthing and owncloud - as well as owning a synology i would never put on the public internet.
So it's not that Google doesn't work, it's that you're using the wrong tool for your use case. If you want highly technical content or precise keyword search you shouldn't use Google. It's like you're going on Tinder to find a marriage partner.