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Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

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[–] MrGG@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've noticed this too, and I want to say it was only noticeable in the last year or two — but it seems to have gotten even worse over the last couple of weeks. Even when I quote something or -exclude a term it is still giving me what it thinks I actually wanted.

[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agree. Something definitely changed in the last two years. It's unbelievably bad now, to the point where I give up if the answer isn't among the first 3 results. It's insane.

[–] sazey@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

As others mentioned, Google just straight up ignores most of my quotes and excludes and just shows me what it wants to. Shockingly bad, I remember a time when if I couldn't find something, it was my own failing.

[–] notfromhere@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I’ve noticed the degradation of google search since they introduced search suggestion completions. That is forever the timemark (landmark for time?) in my mind of the enshittification of google search.