Google swears everything is fine. A new study—and many people's lived experience—says different.

You’re Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds::Google swears everything is fine. A new study—and many people’s lived experience—says different.

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I’d have to repeat the search to check again, but I don’t remember seeing the same sites when I repeated the search on Google, at least not on the first page in the top few spots the way it was on DDG.

      • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

        So maybe that’s the genius of DDG - you skip right past the predatory SEO-optimized sites straight away to the predatory sketchy ones:-D.

        • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          LOL! Yeah I’m paranoid enough about buying from strange sites that it’s not a problem, and frankly I expect the AI generated SEO optimized spam to be more likely to be riddled with malware.

          • OpenStars@startrek.websiteEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            Hrm, maybe Google screens those, so they are more purely a waste of your time rather than something that can be actually reported to a federal agency? :-P Or perhaps it is just a better scam, to keep a site up there for longer = more clickbait dollars, with less risk of angering someone so much that they track the scammers down and send them a “package” of explosive fun!:-D (the easiest profits come when the harmed party does not even realize that they have lost anything)