Google execs admit users are ‘not quite happy’ with search experience after Reddit blackouts - eviltoast

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

  • Aetina@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I habitually enable “verbatim” mode. I find most problems with google search now are keywords in my search being removed because google thinks it knows what I’m searching better than a literal string describing specifically that. The problem isn’t that reddit is less accessible, it’s that google is trying to do some unwanted manipulation of your results to “optimize your search” but it end up making worser results. They need to stop with the “I know what you want better than you” mentality when showing results because that’s how the results get so bad. You can see that in youtube too with how they show you clickbait with every search. I also think AI is or will be making that mentality worse… AI is just statistics at its core, and I feel like that will have biases toward more commonly asked stuff and away from more specific and technical answers.