Google is a publicly traded advertising company with quarterly goals and a track record of lying about their AI offerings. “Google” used to be synonymous with finding things, now “Google” is synonymous with enshittification. The only thing keeping Google’s search offerings relevant is monopolistic behavior and inertia.
I use the “udm=14” method to remove the AI/Spam results at the beginning of search result. While it doesn’t address the overall decline in search quality, I find it is a much better experience.
Google is only useful for local shopping results, and even that is barely true anymore. I can’t recall the last time they returned a relevant result for any other type of search query.
The first half of the page is AI/ads, and the rest is SEO optimized trash.
Using udm=14 just means the result page has more room for SEO garbage.
The first half of the page is AI/ads, and the rest is SEO optimized trash.
If any other search engine was worth any time, then those would be full of SEO as well. SEO is a huge buisness and as long as people just click on the first or second links (yes, they do) then it will continue.
Google and other search engines can try to combat it but as long as the money involved are good, it will not go away.
Just found extensions for that! Trying one now on Firefox.
I just asked it “when was the last time manchester united and manchester city were both out of the top four in the premier league” it said whatever season “20xx season was the last time neither team finished in the top four, city finished 12th and united finished 1st.”
it isnt useful for its primary purpose.
Wow, really?
Does anyone use the Google “home” screen? Not seen anyone use it vs just searching via the url bar
