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by Kovah
2534 days ago
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Totally agree. Googles' golden egg is not the index but the datasets containing searches done by the user (together with location data from Android and Maps, and speech data from Assistant). As far as I remember Google is actually shrinking its index in terms of number of indexed websites because 90% of the internet are irrelevant for the majority of searches. Basically "quality over quantity" if you can say that. |
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This is even more depressing. Google was such a wonderful tool for us nerds because we could finally find those usenet posts, personal blogs, tech mail lists, etc. of all the esoteric subjects that had been hard to find previously. Before Google, you'd use lists of curated links (e.g. Yahoo) for a given topic that had been traded back and forth between various sites and other interested netizens.
It's apparent that Google is becoming worse and worse for these types of searches, while it concentrates of more popular queries like "When is the next <my show> on" or "What is the current sports-ball score" or "How big are Kim Kardashian's boobs".
Just like Craig of Craigslist recently came out with an article saying the internet has actually made the news media worse, not better for informing citizens - something he did not predict correctly - it's apparent that Google is pushing us in the same negative direction in the ability to find quality information on non-consumer knowledge.
* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/14/craigslis...