1995................
Google is run by a left wing racist Indian. He hates Trump, hates whites, hates Christians, and hates conservatives. Once you align with that it all makes sense.
Everywhere I search is a joke. If you ask for something to do with conservatism you are shown the opposite. Ask about problems with EVs, you get articles extolling them.
Noticed the problem at some point after I finished the first draft of my book. It became abundantly clear that their algorithms had changed dramatically.
Because I do research, I don't want searches tailored to my BIASES.
There needs to be a toggle button at the top of the browser. ALL browsers, including another to turn off 'ranked results'.
I have yet to find a suitable browser for hard research and will review this thread later for suggestions.
Good article! Thanks for posting. I too get the same results when searching for every day items. The results are always something that I did not ask for. Even putting the exact name of soemthing in quotes, I get unrelated BS.
I use it for answering questions with no political implications. Then I ignore anything commercially oriented. That works well for me. I get an email from a friend with a new hamstring tendon break. Before I call them, I check it on google. Always gives me enough info to intelligently discuss the problem.
I just know to avoid anything Trump related. For those questions, I use the search functions on conservative websites. That almost always gets me what I want.
search kids play ideas or anything like that, and all you get are minority kids of all colors except whites. I use the Ruskie site Yandex! gives you what your looking for with nothing to proove...
I never use it. I tried searching “Triumph motorcycle parts” a couple of years back. I got 2 pages of auto parts links before Triumph showed up. Lol. Google is worthless.
2012, 2013 or so. They stopped being a search engine long ago. They call their product a decision engine. They will provide results as they see fit in love with their advertisers and politics.
All the old tricks of quotation marks etc are long gone.
Utterly worthless for search. I try to search for things I know exist and get things utterly unrelated.
Six or seven tries doesn’t improve the result.
2006
I’ve been using
https://freespoke.com/search/web?q=freespoke
Years ago.
Try doing a search for natural remedies for a cold or sore throat.
The links are all to the NIH and CDC journals and research papers.
You can’t find much of ANYTHING from the natural health community that isn’t connected to big pharma.
Google just sux....
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.
But when brought up the FR devotees of BIG BIG BIG Tech explained "SHUT UP."
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.
When a monopoly gets established abuses happen. If you’ve ever played the game you should know that.
When they gave it to so called “AI” with a voice.
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.