The content is worse and so is the relevancy. They way over generalize queries now, most likely for caching, and they end up ignoring half the keywords you're looking for.
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Yup. With help from Pinterest, Houzz, and the like, as well, for images.
Then you add all the AI generated crap. Last time I tried to compare phone spec all I could find were AI generated with the same errors. Hallucinations. About one or two capabilities and the same thoughts structure describing the differences. It looks human but you can tell. I expect it to get a lot worst before it get better.
I use gsmarena.com to compare specs
Thanks for the tip. I'll have a look
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Yea. It's fully algorithm driven, and the algorithm prefers advertising and sites that corporate with Google in some way.
Google gives the most results, but most of the results are useless.
I use DuckDuckGo and it has become just as awful as Google. What are the alternatives? Is Brave any good?
I noticed the search results quickly going downhill a little over a year ago and it hasn't gotten any better. Initially, I thought I was just getting dumber for not being able to specify what I was looking for, but now it's driving me mad. Whatever I search for in 90% of the cases it's bullshit that floats to the top.
I'm dealing with this too. Idk what to use as an alternative. Can we federate search? Lol