Google swears everything is fine. A new study—and many people's lived experience—says different.
For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.
I agree it does suck in general
One thing I tried is using a metasearch engine and for the least part I find the results better and way more customizable (for reference I am self hosting searxNG)
same, just being able to blacklist content farms I dislike is worth the price (standing up a container) of admission, but there’s plenty more good things.
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I agree it does suck in general One thing I tried is using a metasearch engine and for the least part I find the results better and way more customizable (for reference I am self hosting searxNG)
same, just being able to blacklist content farms I dislike is worth the price (standing up a container) of admission, but there’s plenty more good things.