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by HWR_14
1171 days ago
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I completely agree that my experience has not been the same as the the general population's. But that doesn't really help me. My searches are still worse. Just find me pages that match the text I specify please. Add some boolean operators and I'm happy. And because the majority of people have a better experience, I dismiss your second option of other factors being at play. |
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That's fine, though the point I was (clumsily?) trying to make was that there are different factors here that allow multiple things to be true at the same time: power users routinely feel like search result quality is going down, and I think you can pretty objectively show that to be true in many cases.
Simultaneously, though, the barriers for "normal" people to do decent searches have dropped dramatically - there was an accessibility hurdle that was previously challenging for a lot of people and it's incredibly better now vs just a few years ago. This too, I believe, can be shown to be objectively true in many cases. (anecdotally as well - just last week I watched a number of very un-technical senior citizens get what they wanted out of Google and I didn't see much evidence that it was because of their skill at crafting good search queries).