Google execs admit users are 'not quite happy' with search experience after Reddit blackouts
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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.

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

    • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      DDG is my default search engine but there are some types of searches that it’s not good at yet, so I find myself often toggling between the two after I see that DDGs response isn’t going to cut it.

      Earlier today I was searching for a really specific Python error message and google had zero results. I tried Yandex and got the correct result on the first response.

      Each search engine seems to be optimizing for a certain type of query and answer.

      • Restaldt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Ive started going to chatgpt to help me out with errors i dont understand and google hasnt helped with

        • yokonzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Same, it helps with a lot of issues and even skips the part where people are questioning why you even want to know that and how you’re doing it the wrong way and should do their way

        • nucleative@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Yesssss, me too. And often it gets to the right response on the first try which is the ultimate timesaver. This is why Google may be toast unless they can figure out how to integrate this.

          The only caveat is that sometimes Chatgpt just hallucinates an answer or it’s incomplete, so you need a bit more dead reckoning to make sure you’re going the right way.

    • QuazarOmega@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I liked them well enough, but recently is it just me or it seems like every time I reload a search by simply going back to the page, the ranking of the results immediately changes?
      That is supper annoying to me, as now I can’t keep track of the results I opened easily

      • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        This happens sometimes if you search for a new non-cached search phrase. It’ll give you a couple pages, then update it’s index and when you go back you’re on the updated index.

          • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            I don’t know. I’ve noticed it happening for the last few months. Maybe they have the ability to update caches faster now and want to give the most fresh results. It can be irritating if you’re like me and like to click a result and then go back and open a bunch of results in new tabs.

            • QuazarOmega@lemmy.worldEnglish
              0·
              1 year ago

              Sounds plausible yeah, so I haven’t gone crazy haha, it really is annoying since usually the new results are also worse than the first batch in my experience. Guess I’ll just pick up the habit of opening everything in a new tab from the get go

              • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                the new results are also worse than the first batch in my experience.

                FWIW I thought the same. Seems like every search engine turns to doo with time.

    • Gabu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      I find DDG has the same garbage AI generated content as Google. Also, search operators have been broken on DDG for years

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I tried them last year, but I kept not getting what I wanted compared to Google. Will have to try again.