Google definitely has its moments of returning crap results, but you chose a terrible example.

Results from both docker and redis, on topic for exactly what you asked for.

Why even use Google at all, when you could search docker hub If that’s what you knew you wanted.

You asked for docker redis image, received docker.com talking about redis, and redis.io talking about docker

Idk that seems pretty on the point to me

If you think that's bad, try googling something related to Android.
All the results are shitty blog posts full of padding text with grammar and spelling mistakes.

For anyone wondering, here's that same query in DDG (zoomed out to show same amount of results)

man SEO really has managed to break search. There's so many random blogs that just have pretty much just your search terms in the title and rarely have anything else of use.

idk.... the first two results seem both relevant and authoritative.

I agree with OP here, these results are not great.

OP searched for the redis docker image, not a tutorial on how to use it, not a tutorial on why redis should be run in docker, and did not search for redis docker docs. While these are relevant, they should be further down, not the top result. DDG gets this right, and I'm pretty sure other search engines do too.

For a total newbie, these results are probably OK, but for a technical person who knows what they want literally as they type it, Google's results are (excuse my french) simply shit. DDG is miles better at handling this stuff, and they don't need your personal data to do it well either.

Edit: Just went and searched "redis docker image" in a private tab on Google, and the docker hub image for Redis is not even shown on the first page of results

This search should obviously return the official Docker Hub Redis image

It's the 5th result for me.

Don't really see the "gore" ... those are all relevant results.

On kagi, the first result is also the docker hub link. This example is not actually that bad though, the first 2 results at least still relevant (from docker and redis domains) instead of some random blogspam (3rd result).

I searched for help on a game I was playing the other day and got 300 results, all the same forum post. Like, the exact same post 300 times

Just for fun let's compare the search results of docker redis image:

• Google results - A, B, C, D*, E
• DDG results - E, A, B, F*, G*
• Bing results - A, E, B, C, G* (Bing throws up a bunch of Cards, which i ignored for these comparisons)

So more or less the same high quality results in the top 5 results across the engines, with a little reordering going on.

the* means blog spam.

• A - docker.com
• B - Redis.io
• C - github docker-library
• D* - Kinsta.com
• E - hub.docker.com
• F* - How to geek
• G* - phoenixnap

Isn't duckduckgo just bing with disabled tracking?

I had a similar experience today. I wanted to run a battlefield 2042 server and forgot the URL.

(It’s https://portal.battlefield.com)

So I google searched for “Run a battlefield 2042 server” thinking obviously that would lead to that page. Nope, all it gave me were blog posts and wikihow shit.

I was searching how to cast the screen on an Android phone through USB yesterday, and I had to go through pages of "free" Play Store apps and their shitty tutorials, some of which I downloaded, (one had 50 million downloads) two of which were identical skins of each other that wanted payment information and charged $20 a month after a week long trial, to eventually find out it's a default included option on any Samsung phone and can be found in some settings. Google search has completely gone to shit.

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Oh it’s absolute garbage. It’s virtually impossible to look up anything and get an answer related to your question.

I had moved to DDG a few years ago and enjoyed it until around the middle of this year when I started getting less and less relevant results.

Started using (and yes, paying for) Kagi 3 or so months ago and it's amazing going back to searches that actually work again. I don't know how well I'd handle moving back to an ad supported search provider.

!docker redis DDG bangs are the way.

The results you got make perfect sense, if you knew exactly what you wanted, why were you using a search engine to begin with? If you wanted the docker redis image, why didn't you just go to it directly instead of searching for it? Do you put your home address into a GPS and follow it turn by turn, or do you just go home?

These things aren’t smart. They don’t know the context of your search. It doesn’t ask “why are they looking for [keyword]”, it just matches to results that score strongly for the keyword. Yeah, blogs tend to suck up the traffic but the results you got are 1 step away from what you were actually looking for but didn’t include in the search prompt.

I know, right? Google Search has been particularly sheet for the last couple of years.
It's, honestly, mind boggling just how bad things got with it.

The only stuff it's still usually better at finding, compared to other search engines, is super obscure stuff on super obscure sites. Which makes sense, I suppose: hardly anyone has fingers as grabby and far reaching as Google.

$ docker search --filter is-official=true redis

.....did you even bother clicking the Images tab before creating this post?