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To: dennisw

Google utterly sucks now as a “search engine”. They even stopped using that term and call it a decision engine.
They weight paid commercial results, and very current results.

I cannot count the number of times I have been looking for something I know exists and have visited it in the past. Usually something not in the last three or four years, but fifteen years ago or so, or referring to something from decades past. Human dosage for Ivermectin horse paste, or Hydroxychloroquine is an example. Or a printable PDF of the Covid shot card. All you get is the covid era censored propaganda. Or try to do a deep dive on the nazi culture of the Banderists.

Like a willful child. google refuses to find it for me. This is especially true if it’s anything historical or which runs counter to today’s narrative.
No matter how you rejigger the search terms, add the parentheses, etc... nothing but very recent and often commercial or modern propaganda results.
None of the old tricks work.

Switch over to Bing and it often improves a little, or DuckDuckGo and it gets better by a lot. Last, try Yandex and there it is but with some very strange porn mixed in that you have to ignore.

But Google utterly sucks. I have always though China or Russia or someone beyond the reach of our courts should simply release a Google circa 2011 search engine clone and destroy Google as a search engine.


10 posted on 05/07/2025 12:28:24 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: DesertRhino

Yandex is owned and operated by Russia


30 posted on 05/07/2025 2:41:07 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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