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by Abishek_Muthian 1408 days ago
> I immediately grabbed some recent "poor result" Google searches from history

Did you revisit every query from your recent Google searches (or) Is it that you have a good memory that you were able to remember poor results from looking at the query?

I'm asking this because, I've been contemplating a 'Search Engine Wall of Shame'[1] where people can submit their poor search results for the engines to make actionable changes towards improving them.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/207-search-engine-wall-of-shame... (Disclosure: It's my problem validation forum).

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Worthy project, thank you.

I re-opened several Google SERPs from my history and compared to Brave.

I often find NO results relevant to my query on the first three pages of search Google results, often seemingly because there is a "more common/popular" aspect of the topic I am searching about, and everything is about the common and related aspects and none about my use case.

Thank you.

Would you be willing to submit your bad search results to such forum? I welcome you to post your bad search results with the queries to that needgap thread for the time being unless there's a dedicated forum for that.

I am willing, but the odds actually doing so are low (busy and disorganized).
That's fine, Next time you come across a bad search result, I hope you remember this conversation.