[qrio2]

Things that i *know* were parts of the internet, that I could find via google 5-10 years ago are no longer possible to find. I get single page search results sometimes, with not even the capability to keep browsing 'more' pages to see things that may be tangentially related. Google has just decided to not show them at all. Remember when the bottom of the page was "Goooooooooooooooogle" and you could click each "o" to go to that page? Haven't seen that in a while, right?

[Kwpolska]

> Remember when the bottom of the page was "Goooooooooooooooogle" and you could click each "o" to go to that page? Haven't seen that in a while, right?

That’s still a thing, although it seems they’re A/B testing its removal. I just opened a private tab (as I always do) and got a boring "More results" button, but I tried another browser (also with a private tab) and got the classic pagination.

[joe_the_user]

Absolutely this. Google has gotten notably worse in just the last two years.

Today:

* Any term that might be related to a commercial product? That product comes first and frequently only.

* Search for two terms? It will first give it's prefer result for each separately - usually commercial products (ha). And then might give them together.

* Quoted terms are often taken as vague suggestions. Negative sign is often useless, etc.

[ignite]

Google has gotten notably worse in the last few months. I keep getting the feeling it is serving results for a query similar to what I entered, but more popular. It drowns out any results that actually might answer my questions.

[sidewndr46]

One of the worst innovations they've introduced is returning results for things you did not search for. At this point, potentially anything is a valid search result for any search query.

[qrio2]

god, the quoted text suggestion thing is really the nail in the coffin. Used to feel like a wizard showing people how to get exact search results, now... well, that's why we're having this discussion

[jeffbee]

What makes you think these origins still exist? Google is not going to direct you to a page that can't be reached, even if we assume that your memory is accurate and the page existed 10 years ago.

[kogus]

I just checked and sure enough, the clickable Goooooooooogle is still there at the bottom of search results, with ten clickable "o"s.

[qrio2]

weird, i must be a/b'd out of that because i just get "more results" endless scrolling, and have for all of recent memory

[dmd]

> Haven't seen that in a while, right?

It's still there right now.

[jgalentine007]

I've been having to use Bing to find things. BING.