Google Is Making A Big Change To The Way It Serves Search Results

Discussion in 'other software & services' started by guest, Oct 25, 2019.

  1. guest

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    Google starts warning users if search results are likely to be poor
    New message warns that results are ‘changing quickly’ and may not yet include reliable sources
    June 25, 2021
    https://www.theguardian.com/technol...users-if-search-results-are-likely-to-be-poor
    Google: A new notice in Search for rapidly evolving results
     
  2. guest

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    Google is starting to tell you how it found Search results
    July 22, 2021
    https://www.reuters.com/technology/...l-you-how-it-found-search-results-2021-07-22/
    Google: Learn more – and get more – from Search
     
  3. guest

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    Google confirms it changed how it creates titles for search result listings
    Google no longer uses the query to generate these titles but still uses HTML title tags 80% of the time
    August 24, 2021
    https://searchengineland.com/google...ates-titles-for-search-result-listings-351506
    Google: An update to how we generate web page titles
     
  4. guest

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    Google Search adding even more site context to the ‘About this result’ panel
    September 29, 2021
    https://9to5google.com/2021/09/29/google-search-about-this-result/
     
  5. guest

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    Google Search launches redesign with more images, suggestions, and ‘Things to know’
    September 29, 2021
    https://9to5google.com/2021/09/29/g...h-more-images-suggestions-and-things-to-know/
     
  6. guest

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    Google Search no longer supports Internet Explorer 11, because ‘it is time’
    October 1, 2021
    https://9to5google.com/2021/10/01/google-search-internet-explorer-11/
     
  7. guest

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    Google modernizes US mobile search results with continuous scrolling
    October 14, 2021
    https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/14/g...ile-search-results-with-continuous-scrolling/
    Google: Continuous scrolling comes to Search on mobile
     
  8. imdb

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    wait, what? o_O
    i don't get it. it's been like this for me on and off for the last couple of weeks?!? :confused:
     
  9. guest

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    Google Search will rank desktop sites based on ‘page experience’ starting in February
    November 4, 2021
    https://9to5google.com/2021/11/04/google-page-experience-desktop/
     
  10. guest

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    Google Search has new features to help you find a doctor
    A new filter can help you find clinics that accept Medicare.
    December 2, 2021

    Google: Making healthcare options more accessible on Search
     
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  11. guest

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    Google Search now provides better suicide prevention information in the U.S.
    July 20, 2022
    Google: Suicide prevention resources on Google Search
     
  12. guest

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    Google Search results now better emphasize words you put in quotes
    August 4, 2022
    Google: How we're improving search results when you use quotes
     
  13. guest

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    Google testing large favicons and site names in mobile Search, Discover
    August 4, 2022
     
  14. guest

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    Google is using AI to make search result snippets better
    Key word: consensus.
    August 11, 2022
    Google: New ways we're helping you find high-quality information
     
  15. Mrkvonic

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    I am still waiting for the new search to match the functionality from ~2014. Back then, you could search for things via url and direct quotes. Nowadays, most often you get pure unrelated nonsense. For me, the search (all engines) has been largely useless for a good few years.
    Mrk
     
  16. guest

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    Google is letting some people launch cloud games directly from search results
    See where you can play games instantly, then do so
    August 11, 2022
     
  17. Uitlander

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    I cannot speak for anyone else, but from my perspective I'd offer this as "backup":

    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/04/goog-n04.html

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/15/google-tweaks-its-algorithm-to-change-search-results-wsj.html

    https://www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...iggest-censor-and-its-power-must-be-regulated

    https://www.businessinsider.com/google-manipulates-search-results-report-2019-11

    https://www.ccn.com/google-manipulates-search-results-former-engineer-shockingly-confirms/

    When one must use the same search terms on multiple search engines, to ferret out the actual information, I'd have to agree with both of you that Google leaves "a lot to be desired" at best, and it's results are "mostly useless" at worst. While it remains 'king of the hill', it ceased to be reliable or trustworthy long ago....about the same time its motto "Don't be evil" became a bad joke.
     
  18. reasonablePrivacy

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    For me Google dork "site:<URL>" still works good enough most of the time. It may fill search results with another sites, but first search results still seem to be from specified URL.

    I think that not only Google is to blame. There is more and more websites. As number of websites increases number of websites with scam increases. Scam websites SEO probably also gets even better.
    Around ~2009 I saw search results with medical scams that urged me to pay for some not-independently-tested supplements that were claimed to treat medical conditions just as good, or better than actual drugs. Those sites unfortunately made quite a good job mimicking medical jargon to sell those unproven therapies. It was all back in ~2009... in non-english language.
    I suppose decade later scams in english part of world wide web could be so good that you need to have subject-related PhD to elaborate why particular site is a scam. And that is poisoning search results of world wide web, so that triggers changes in search engines that tries to catch up and adapt. Adapting means human judgement and biases comes out. And even political decisions are made along the road.
    It seems for me like free, neutral, purely-automatic, general-purpose web search engine that rejects only scams is an utopia.
     
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  19. Mrkvonic

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    Google is not to blame, but ... in a world where getting ranked high = money, and search engines promote rank based on IMHO trivial things like "certain keywords" or "page load speed" or alike, you end up in an unwinnable race. If content promotion was based on other criteria, we wouldn't be in the situation we are in today, and that goes across the board.
    Mrk
     
  20. guest

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    Google will downrank click-farm garbage and aggregators to improve search results
    The company is aiming to surface more helpful content and product reviews.
    August 18, 2022
    Google: More content by people, for people in Search
     
  21. guest

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    Google Search now provides more helpful energy crisis information in Europe
    By Paul Hill @ziks297 - November 9, 2022
    Google: New feature to help people navigate the energy crisis in Europe
     
  22. guest

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    Google says the number of Search ads hasn’t changed in several years
    by Abner Li @technacity - November 16, 2022
     
  23. guest

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    Infinite scrolling comes to Google Search
    By Alfonso Maruccia @AlfonsoMaruccia - December 7, 2022
     
  24. Rasheed187

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    What the hell, are you guys also getting to see the little icons on certain search results? I'm not really feeling it, perhaps I need to get used to them, but I just don't like it, it's distracting. When I search for Viva Wallet and Hiba Abouk I don't get to see them, but I do get them with Torta Caprese.
     
  25. Brummelchen

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    assuming Vivaldi, its ad blocker and other adblocker(s). think about. i do see those tiny icons.

    :thumb:
    a lot of news (and other trivial) pages use it - why not google? maybe its limited at least.
     
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