Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
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.
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
FWIW I thought the same. Seems like every search engine turns to doo with time.
Would be a great moment for a great open source search engine to take everyone by storm, well, like that’s ever gonna happen…
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
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’m sorry, what does that mean?
If the algorithm is made open source, it’ll likely be even easier for spammers to exploit it to spam SEO crap. ~Nai
I kind of doubt that they would optimize for an underdog in the search engine space, they’d be spending money on something fundamentally unprofitable, also because there’s going to be a high overlap between the users of such an engine and those who would use an ad/content blocker
Maybe, but if it gains popularity for being better than Google or something, then the quality would probably go down significantly. ~Nai