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by mastodon_acc 1205 days ago
How is that Google's fault? are you expecting a "Search" engine to perform qualitative analysis on your specific topic and generate a list for you?

"best xxx reddit" that's google working as intended, you searched for a topic on reddit.

I swear with the proliferation of LLMs most people have completely forgotten what a "search" in a search engine means.
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Double_a_92 1205 days ago
Because it's not that the sites it finds just has a bad or wrong opinion. Instead the whole site itself is usually a complete fraud or generated nonsense and it should be Googles job to kinda filter those out or rank them down. It would even help a lot if they just added a button to allow me to ban certain domains from my results.
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thiht 1205 days ago
> How is that Google's fault

Because the top results are complete crap, and obvious SEO spams in most cases. If Google just allowed me to blacklist some sites from my search results I could actually get good results.

Also maybe they shouldn't not rewrite my queries for me, I don't need them to helpfully remove 3 words out of 5 from my search.

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