Google result suddenly gone bad for anyone else?

[Supafly]

Just did a search on Steam Limited accounts so I could link Steams FAQs on how to unlimit their account so I could link it in a thread. The results are shockingly bad. Tried various wordings to search and it's the same every time'. Just searching for 'Steam limited' or 'Steam unlimit' or 'Steam limited account' or 'Steam unlimit account' used to be good enough to have the official FAQs in the first 3 results taking me to
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/71D3-35C2-AD96-AA3A

3 pages and it's not a result, only time Steam is a result is to forum posts of people asking about it.

Results that bad for anyone else?

[videomike_Ultimate_Plushie]

You're only now noticing this? this exact problem with the same exact cause is what made Yahoo fail as a search engine back when they competed with Google. It's been this way since 2016. I remeber the literal day they changed it i took me 2 and a half pages of search to find the mincraft wiki despite it being spot 1 before that. I've been googling on Duckduckgo ever since(and using Googling as a verb for my own reasons)

[Candyy]

Google for me has been very very bad in the last few years

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Google pushes "Bias Bubble" personal results, sponsored results, politically motivated results, and any results that game the algorithm above all else.

Strange this all started happening around the time they got rid of their old "Don't Be Evil" company motto.

[videomike_Ultimate_Plushie]

Publicado originalmente por Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Google pushes "Bias Bubble" personal reults, sponsored results, politically motivated results, and any results that game the algorithm above all else.

Strange this all started happening around the time they got rid of their old "Don't Be Evil" company motto. :marten_sip:

The irony of that timing keeps coming up. It's great. Now if only there was a better e-mail server to use. But they havent gotten so far gone they can't run an e-mail client.

[skOsH♥]

This has been happening for at least a year

Probably longer

Search any term.

6 billion results in 0.22 seconds

Hmm

Go to page 25

Now look at how many results there are. Is it the same? Maybe its the same.

Now try to find any results past like page 45 for most common search results

[DoomsDay]

the search is being edited heavily.the pinion that is being forwarded to you is heavily edited.
why do you ask

[Supafly]

I don't search on Google very much to be honest. Tend to use Ecosia search engine myself, plants trees from searches. Was having issues with Firefox recently and reset it which had reverted my search engine to Google. Hadn't noticed when I searched from the address bar and was shocked by the poor results.

Changed search engine back to Ecosia to get the correct link, top result which is how I posted it in the thread I was in.

Hadn't realised how bad Google can be nowadays.

I say 'Google' all the time when I talk internet searches just cause it's a well known engine too

[Supafly]

Publicado originalmente por Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Google pushes "Bias Bubble" personal reults, sponsored results, politically motivated results, and any results that game the algorithm above all else.

Never sign in
Firefox set to clear everything upon exit,
Have Noscipt addon and Google scripts are prevented from running, though I do need to toggle them to allowed on some sites as I can't login without it....Wish companies would develop their own scripts instead of using the Google.com script

[DoomsDay]

the external brain sometimes dont want to work for you.i dont know why is that.

[videomike_Ultimate_Plushie]

Publicado originalmente por Supafly:

Publicado originalmente por Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Google pushes "Bias Bubble" personal reults, sponsored results, politically motivated results, and any results that game the algorithm above all else.

Never sign in
Firefox set to clear everything upon exit,
Have Noscipt addon and Google scripts are prevented from running, though I do need to toggle them to allowed on some sites as I can't login without it....Wish companies would develop their own scripts instead of using the Google.com script

Signing in has nothing to do with sponsorship whitelisting and political motivation.

[Supafly]

Publicado originalmente por d¢:

This has been happening for at least a year

Probably longer

Search any term.

6 billion results in 0.22 seconds

Hmm

Go to page 25

Now look at how many results there are. Is it the same? Maybe its the same.

Now try to find any results past like page 45 for most common search results

LOL just did that and I got option for next page, no numbers, allow the Google.com script and for 'steam limited account' it says 135 results, which is 14 pages. Yet 'Steam' gets 2.1 billion and I can't get passed page 7...

As bad as Amazons sorting, 10,000 results and sort by price = 923 results.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Publicado originalmente por Supafly:

Publicado originalmente por Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Google pushes "Bias Bubble" personal reults, sponsored results, politically motivated results, and any results that game the algorithm above all else.

Never sign in
Firefox set to clear everything upon exit,
Have Noscipt addon and Google scripts are prevented from running, though I do need to toggle them to allowed on some sites as I can't login without it....Wish companies would develop their own scripts instead of using the Google.com script

Doesn't matter if you are signed in or not.

I don't even have a google account and I still get their bias and sponsor bubbles.

Between cookies and other forms of internet use and I.P. address tracking they still push a lot of the same garbage.

You would have to run every ad-blocker, script blocker, a VPN, and use a different computer each time so they do not deliver biased results.

It's a lot easier to just NOT use google for search anymore because of how bad it has become.

[Supafly]

Publicado originalmente por Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Doesn't matter if you are signed in or not.

I don't even have a google account and I still get their bias and sponsor bubbles.

Between cookies and other forms of internet use and I.P. address tracking they still push a lot of the same garbage.

You would have to run every ad-blocker, script blocker, a VPN, and use a different computer each time so they do not deliver biased results.

It's a lot easier to just NOT use google for search anymore because of how bad it has become.

I do use a VPN too. Only thing that remains the same when I use the net is my PC.

I didn't realise Google had gotten that bad. I normally use Ecosia. Reset Firefox yesterday, weird behaviour, and their default search engine is Google. I had forgot to change it back to Ecosia which led me to the bad Google results this morning.

Only Google account I have is for my phone. Google or Apple and I don't really like Apple products when it comes to transferring files to and from devices.

[UwU King👑Pikachu]

i never saw anything bad about pikachu from google all good

[sotaponi]

I think it became unusable at around the same time (2013-2017) that the internet as a whole went to crap. Which also coincided the skyrocketing use of words such as "incel," "waifu," "alpha male," etc.

Which would lead me to believe that google has been taken over by hysterical hylics, unless them not being such was merely an act. And you shouldn't see them as any better than other algorithmic data thieves such as e.g. facebook or ChatGPT/StableDiffusion, anyway.