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@bhawthorne Out of interest, do the Google results contain as much AI noise as those on DuckDuckGo? I can imagine that removing that noise from search results will become equally important for Google as their fight against SEO spam, and they have the resources to try it 3 comments
 @bhawthorne @jfrantzius can confirm from my own experience, the few times i go to try google because everything else fails have gotten much less useful results over ~the last year. before that google spit out some results i could not get from duckdg metager or startpage (or only with very specific search terms or sentences long citations from those sites) |
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@jfrantzius Let’s see. I haven’t used Google in a while.
First off, when I try to tap on the search box on mobile to type in a search term, the search box now appears to just be a button, which opens a new page of suggestions, and the text box where I am typing is off the top of the screen. Apparently some Google designer didn’t try their new UI with a larger typeface.
Okay, apparently I can type a search string, even though I can’t see what I am typing. “Temperature for roasting hazelnuts”.
The first page shows some images, then three “snippets” from websites I have never heard of, suggesting 375F, 350F, and 275F. 101Cookbooks, Culinary Hill (which is a hot mess of stripped out ads, popups, etc.), and Oregon Hazelnuts which appears on its face to be an industry marketing group.
After that is one search result from an Australian site, a section of “Perspectives” whatever the hell those are, a Recipes section, a Quora result, short videos, a stack exchange article, another Videos section, an Also Searched For section, and finally what appear to be half a dozen actual search results, all from unknown sources, then we are back to videos, then all sorts of excerpts unrelated to roasting hazelnuts.
[ Sorry for the delay. 15 min scheduled maintenance to switch our town fiber network over to our new MPLS-TE infrastructure. ]
Anyway, I can’t really say much about the Google results other than, “what a mess”.
@jfrantzius Let’s see. I haven’t used Google in a while.
First off, when I try to tap on the search box on mobile to type in a search term, the search box now appears to just be a button, which opens a new page of suggestions, and the text box where I am typing is off the top of the screen. Apparently some Google designer didn’t try their new UI with a larger typeface.