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Is it just me, or are search engines getting worse? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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My main focus isn't on quality of results.

The real problem is, whenever I type a query that's even the slightest bit out of the ordinary, I get no results. Google, Duckduckgo, Startpage, Searx, all of them.

It strains credibility that these advanced pieces of technology could not find anything among billions of websites, when in the past, less-advanced versions of these engines could find results for similar queries among smaller numbers of websites.

To reiterate: My problem is not with SEO, or spam, or AI-generated websites, or irrelevant results. My problem is getting no results much more frequently than in the past.

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[–] rob299@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think what it is is, they want to serve you generic results so the further you go into specific territory you might get one or two results but not a lot. But search for the switch 2 or something popular that they can advertise over, and they'l have all the results in the world.

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problem isn't that I'm getting generic results or irrelevant results, I'm getting no results at all.

[–] rob299@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

No results at all? Like no links show up in your results at all? Hadn't heard of that happening or expereienced. although, it might happen in searxng depending on your search engine config in settings.