Google Search Algorithm (More like Google SUCKS Algorithm)
I like to keep to myself, and generally I've never really been the type to join forums to ask questions about problems I have, so instead I usually do a lot of google searching. Actually, even when not looking for solutions to things, I google search. Google search for art inspiration, Google search for new additions to my endless The Sims 3 custom content hoard. (eventually ending up in all manner of sketchy Russian websites more often then not with that last one.)
I'm sure literally anyone who might be viewing this can identify to all that. (Okay, maybe not the pillaging sketchy Russian websites for cute virtual hairstyles thing, but still.) So, I ask you members of the Save-point forums, in however many years or decades you've been using the google search engine, would you consider it being on a downwards slope? Or is it the same as it's always been?
Personally, I find myself having more and more trouble every year when I end up trying to go down rabbit holes for solutions to whatever issues I might be facing. There have been many instances when I was just SURE something had to be posted about a specific script issue somewhere, but google showed me nothing.
Aside from this, did you know that Google is always in flux? And things that can be found easily on the clear-net one day, might drift below the reaches of searchability the next? Because I didn't know that until a couple years ago.
Also, different languages have their own "internets" you might say. Can't find something on English Google? Try Chinese Google, or Yiddish Google, (or Russian Google, as with the earlier mentions). For me, it just boggles the mind how much stuff we don't see on the web (particularly if you're a fellow monolinguist). There's so, so many many pages that have just drifted into the nether from age alone. Truly fascinating I think.
...But, oh yeah, the Google Search algorithm still hella sucks.
Maybe all search algorithms are like this, or maybe I'm just being a GOOGLIOCENTRIC. Maybe over there on Bing and Ask Jeeves deep-dark-web accessibility is a built in feature. And cat videos, and MLP fan wikis, and red-rooms, and everybody's personal Paypal account pages all live in simultaneous harmony.
Anyway, that just popped into my thoughtvat, and I thought; what's better than to use this opportunity for a first non-introduction post, and dump out all my random observations onto this forum lol.
TLDR: Anyone else having trouble searching up specific stuff on Google? Or do you even use Google? If so, what about your preferred engine then?
I'm sure literally anyone who might be viewing this can identify to all that. (Okay, maybe not the pillaging sketchy Russian websites for cute virtual hairstyles thing, but still.) So, I ask you members of the Save-point forums, in however many years or decades you've been using the google search engine, would you consider it being on a downwards slope? Or is it the same as it's always been?
Personally, I find myself having more and more trouble every year when I end up trying to go down rabbit holes for solutions to whatever issues I might be facing. There have been many instances when I was just SURE something had to be posted about a specific script issue somewhere, but google showed me nothing.
Aside from this, did you know that Google is always in flux? And things that can be found easily on the clear-net one day, might drift below the reaches of searchability the next? Because I didn't know that until a couple years ago.
Also, different languages have their own "internets" you might say. Can't find something on English Google? Try Chinese Google, or Yiddish Google, (or Russian Google, as with the earlier mentions). For me, it just boggles the mind how much stuff we don't see on the web (particularly if you're a fellow monolinguist). There's so, so many many pages that have just drifted into the nether from age alone. Truly fascinating I think.
...But, oh yeah, the Google Search algorithm still hella sucks.
Maybe all search algorithms are like this, or maybe I'm just being a GOOGLIOCENTRIC. Maybe over there on Bing and Ask Jeeves deep-dark-web accessibility is a built in feature. And cat videos, and MLP fan wikis, and red-rooms, and everybody's personal Paypal account pages all live in simultaneous harmony.
Anyway, that just popped into my thoughtvat, and I thought; what's better than to use this opportunity for a first non-introduction post, and dump out all my random observations onto this forum lol.
TLDR: Anyone else having trouble searching up specific stuff on Google? Or do you even use Google? If so, what about your preferred engine then?