[wyck]

Google search has gone down the proverbial shithole in the last 2 years, and has been struggling long before that. Even for non political searches it returns horrible results. It's a threat in the short-term, and then it will be replaced since the algorithm is falling apart.

[6gvONxR4sf7o]

The crap results I get in place of good ones are pretty spammy. I suspect it's not google that's getting worse, but spammers getting better. That's not something a google alternative will magically do better combatting.

[akvadrako]

It's been getting worse for way more than 2 years. Remember when google would honor quotes and the plus sign to force those terms to appear in the results?

[jhanschoo]

Can I have an example where quotes are not honored?

To force a certain spelling even for a single word, enclose it in quotes.

[codingslave]

Yeah they got beat by spam and hired a bunch of subpar engineers through their leetcode dogma