• Lmaydev
    172·
    9 months ago

    100% the page ranking system is too easy to abuse. So a lot of garbage gets to the top of results.

    But the internet is just too big to do proper index searches like the old days.

    • livus@kbin.social
      6·
      9 months ago

      Google sometimes tells me there were only 4 results (and none of them are the thing I’m searching). It’s super annoying when it’s something I know is online.

      • Atemu@lemmy.ml
        5·
        9 months ago

        It’s super annoying when it’s something I know is online.

        That may also simply no longer be true. Things do disappear from the internet; quite often actually.

        What’s the thing you were looking for? I want to try whether Kagi can dig it up.

        • Z3Hexenal@reddthat.comB
          5·
          9 months ago

          Google has twice told me this.

          But I got the page by searching browser history. The page refreshed too (not cached).

        • livus@kbin.social
          4·
          9 months ago

          @Atemu

          Yes, I know things are taken down but that’s not what I’m talking about at all. By “something I know is online” I mean that literally.

          For example, cases where I was trying to use google to get straight to it instead of navigating multiple menus on a website.

          Or a website I was at the previous day but I don’t want to wade through my search history to get back there.

          Then when google fails I go and navigate to it myself and it is still there.