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by eastbound 1042 days ago
Google searched has encouraged long pages for SEO. Now Google sells us the idea that Google can help you reduce the useless words on the internet.

Maybe de-index receipes talking about how this soup was my grandma’s preferred soup. It’s not so hard, you still have the full power on search engines, Google! For at least 2 more full months! Do it!

You are the problem, Google.

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They are too busy turning their browser and search experience into crap. For instance what's with search results in gmail and google drive? I literaly search for a file by name, doesn't find it, I search by extension ... it finds it? Then there's chrome - right click on selected text to search on google, instead of opening at tab it opens a crammed side bar? Has google gone insane?
I've noticed gmail search has gotten significantly worse. Maybe my inbox corpus is becoming too large or google may be dedicating less server resources to search, but the frequency of failed inbox searches has significantly increased over the past year. (Failed as in I try to search for an email I know exists, but can't find it)

Looks like my inbox is at 250,000 emails. Wonder if search degrades with inbox size. (Same with drive?)

From my experience with corporates this is poor product management. I think these are not bugs but rather poor design choices made by people that have no clue other than how to tick boxes of "inovation" delivered. Whether features make sense or not the product manager's KPIs will look good.