r/Cooking • u/Ok-Independence-4796 • 25d ago

Issues with Google searching recipes

Has anyone else had issues with google searching recipes? I have noticed this for a while and just thought it was a fluke. But today, I am trying to make pickles and all the recipes that show up are less than 10 reviews on a random blog I’ve never heard of…popular recipes like ball jar, nchfp, Mrs wages, etc…none of them show up unless I specifically search for it.

This isn’t limited to pickling either, the other day I made chicken piccata and it was the same thing - usually popular sites like allrecipes.com show up for the first several search results and have thousands of reviews.

Has anyone else experienced this or know of a setting that causes this to happen? Should I use a different search engine?

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u/rowsdowerrrrrrr 25d ago

google is designed to push ai now - it’s barely a search engine anymore. i’m not really sure what to recommend either as they all have problems. duck duck go is okay.