Google's original appeal is eroding fast
In Ye Dark Days of Lycos et. al., Google did bring forth Reliable Internet Search. And it was good.
Not so much anymore. Google's search (your mileage may vary) returns good results less and less these days. It's a perfect storm of:
- Bubbling. Limiting results based on previous searches. Hey, that was last year dammit.
- "Oh, you really meant THIS, right?". Ignoring my quote-enclosed exact search term to give 50% hits based on irrelevant crap they THINK I might really be searching for.
- Dilution and pollution with hits from those paying to have their irrelevant crap injected into my results list. At the top of the list, of course.
- Not related to search, but Big Brother tracking and whoring my data to anyone with ten cents.
I don't use Google anymore. The clean, relevant search results I used to get are a thing of the past. Funny, Better Search is the justification for the data mining, ennit?