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Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet by wslh on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:39PM (#38108328)
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 (#38108519)
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.

Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet by jrumbut on Thursday November 02, 2023 @12:21AM (#38108960)
Does Kagi support queries like site, inurl, intitle, etc or have some similar capabilities?
Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet by zargon on Thursday November 02, 2023 @01:39AM (#38109391)
Yes.
Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet by entropyie on Thursday November 02, 2023 @08:20AM (#38112480)
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 (#38124318)
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.