Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

  • @CinnerB
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    41 year ago

    This happens sometimes if you search for a new non-cached search phrase. It’ll give you a couple pages, then update it’s index and when you go back you’re on the updated index.

    • @QuazarOmega
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      21 year ago

      Interesting, but how come it never did that before? Did I just not notice?

      • @CinnerB
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        1 year ago

        I don’t know. I’ve noticed it happening for the last few months. Maybe they have the ability to update caches faster now and want to give the most fresh results. It can be irritating if you’re like me and like to click a result and then go back and open a bunch of results in new tabs.

        • @QuazarOmega
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          21 year ago

          Sounds plausible yeah, so I haven’t gone crazy haha, it really is annoying since usually the new results are also worse than the first batch in my experience. Guess I’ll just pick up the habit of opening everything in a new tab from the get go

          • @CinnerB
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            21 year ago

            the new results are also worse than the first batch in my experience.

            FWIW I thought the same. Seems like every search engine turns to doo with time.

              • @ArcticCircleSystem
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                11 year ago

                I feel like that would be more easily gameable. SearXNG relies on results from other engines and there’s this one distributed one that’s apparently basically useless for most searches. Do with that info what you will. ~Nai

                • @QuazarOmega
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                  11 year ago

                  My wish would be for a free search engine, not a meta search engine, but it doesn’t seem like there is much interest for that, mainly because it highly demanding in terms of complexity, but most importantly resources to run it.

                  I feel like that would be more easily gameable.

                  I’m sorry, what does that mean?

                  • @ArcticCircleSystem
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                    11 year ago

                    If the algorithm is made open source, it’ll likely be even easier for spammers to exploit it to spam SEO crap. ~Nai