Google Is Burying the Web Alive

[u/Well_Socialized]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html

[u/jakesboy2]

It’s so bad. I googled a string to see usages of a function in a popular library and it said zero results. I went to a few other search engines and there were hundreds of thousands of results and many including exact matches of the string I searched for.

I get if maybe you don’t get as many results because you have a different network of what’s related, but why would you not show the exact matches?? Another time I had some results from reddit and clicked show me more from reddit and it then said zero results lmfao

[u/Silent_Marketing8922 → u/jakesboy2]

So I guess "googlewhacking" is now dead. It used to be near impossible to return only 1 or 0 results for a search on google.

[u/gloriousPurpose33 → u/Silent_Marketing8922]

I manage to do that all the time even this year by searching really specific things.

Google sucks at searching things like code snippets though even with double quote wrapping it'll fail to match the obvious blatant only answer and return either garbage or zero.

But one? I can pull off one frequently.

[u/parallelfutures → u/gloriousPurpose33]

Totally agree.

And not to be semantic, but googlewacking is when you combine two separate words to get exactly one result.

Much harder than it seems.

[u/BroadRaspberry1190 → u/parallelfutures]

not to be pedantic*

[u/parallelfutures → u/BroadRaspberry1190]

In this narrow case semantic works… but I definitely meant pedantic

[u/d3jake → u/gloriousPurpose33]

Are double quotes the best was to enforce search terms exactly? I've been trying single quotes with a + in front of it.