[kccqzy]

I've noticed the same thing. People also like to complain the quality of Google Search has gone down for much of the same reason: if you first do a Google search that returned a good result and then repeat it, you are going to notice the absence. But if you first do a Google search that didn't return the thing you expect you might think such a thing just doesn't exist on the Internet. Ergo, quality decrease is simply more noticeable than quality increase.

[greiskul]

For Google Search, the sad part, is that the search algorithm hasn't gotten worse. But the web itself has. There is so much more spam, with actual human generated content being siloed more and more in walled gardens, that it starts to become a major issue for Google.

[recursive]

Even if Google's algorithm hasn't gotten worse, (which is still in question) Google Search the product has. The advertising dark patterns continue their inexorable creep.

[rosewater]

I’m not sure about this. It’s possible, but if google search hasn’t gotten worse, then the quality of competitor search has improved. I never imagined myself using Bing unironically, but I have consistently better results from Bing than google nowadays - which is inconvenient because I’m otherwise very plugged into the broader google ecosystem.

[fleischhauf]

I don't know man, it used to give me results where my query would appear in the text. this is not happening anymore. even if I use quotes around a term it will just be ignored. I feel like my searches are too specific, it might have gotten better for the average person, but worse for people looking for some more special information.