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When Did Google Search Become Totally Useless?
The Federalist ^ | 10/22/2024 | Rich Cromwell

Posted on 10/22/2024 8:35:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

There’s plenty of other search engines these days. Try some until you find the one that fits for you.

I left Google long ago.


21 posted on 10/22/2024 9:37:39 AM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Chickensoup

Duckduckgo isn’t much better these days.

They used to be OK, but now are going woke.


22 posted on 10/22/2024 9:37:42 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: sit-rep

cannot get into yandex


23 posted on 10/22/2024 9:38:31 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: SeekAndFind
Noticeably? About ten years.

But when brought up the FR devotees of BIG BIG BIG Tech explained "SHUT UP."

24 posted on 10/22/2024 9:39:41 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: sit-rep

I got it to work.

Great site
Yandex! dont forget the exclamation point


25 posted on 10/22/2024 9:41:52 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Tell It Right

:-)

I put ‘pretty women’ into google, and I got posters and screen shots from the “Pretty Woman’ movie and a pic of Roy Orbison.


26 posted on 10/22/2024 9:46:52 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: bk1000

He’s there in part because he backs the agenda, no doubt—but he’s not the cause of the agenda.


27 posted on 10/22/2024 9:51:05 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: sit-rep

I didn’t get that at all. Google image searches on ‘Kids play ideas’ and just ‘kids’ are about half and half, actually a little more weighted toward Caucasian.


28 posted on 10/22/2024 9:51:52 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: SaxxonWoods

“French Military Victories”

“Did you mean French military defeats?”


29 posted on 10/22/2024 9:55:44 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Seruzawa

Try the Yandex! it is fast and accurate


30 posted on 10/22/2024 9:56:08 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: SeekAndFind

I noticed in 2006 the search results were becoming more curated. Prior to then, I could search an odd combination of words and find some rare results that were just what I needed.

Finding rare research papers were a big help. Now the same type of search results the same four or five “preferred” sources. In medicine, everything is NIH, CDC, FDA, Johns Hopkins, etc. All point to the same few research papers. This only got worse after Covid hit.


31 posted on 10/22/2024 9:57:47 AM PDT by jps098
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To: jps098

yep


32 posted on 10/22/2024 10:01:42 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Haddit

Just gave it try, pretty good!

It actually has conservative source unlike Google who is filled with NBC, CBS, NPR, MSNBC etc.


33 posted on 10/22/2024 10:04:21 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: SaxxonWoods

The trick that works a lot of the time:

1. Do the search. Get the leftist garbage results.

2. Look for two or three keywords (adjectives) where the leftist results show their bias.

3. Redo the search adding -adjective one -adjective two

4. Add new leftist adjectives as needed


34 posted on 10/22/2024 10:05:40 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg

It seems to me that the minus sign used to work a lot better than it does now.


35 posted on 10/22/2024 10:08:24 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Google used to be a good search engine into Free Republic. If I remembered an obscure article from a few years ago I could search for the topic and freerepublic.com. In the past couple of years it’s like they blacklisted us.


36 posted on 10/22/2024 10:08:52 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (7/13/2024:The day the Democrats and their SA chose assassination as their primary political tool.)
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To: KarlInOhio

I used to do that too, and I could always find old posts. Not anymore.


37 posted on 10/22/2024 10:11:34 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: SeekAndFind

When a monopoly gets established abuses happen. If you’ve ever played the game you should know that.


38 posted on 10/22/2024 10:35:14 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: SeekAndFind

When they gave it to so called “AI” with a voice.


39 posted on 10/22/2024 11:00:33 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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Re: "Google Search - Increasingly useless"

Completely agree.

I have started using Microsoft Bing for my first search.

Google for second search, if I cannot find the info I need on Bing.

Google often starts with 5-10 paid links to the words I am searching.

Completely ridiculous.

Bing is using AI...

I often get the info I need on my first click on Bing.

40 posted on 10/22/2024 11:17:40 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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