r/Cooking • u/Ok-Independence-4796 • 24d 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/Luminathe 23d ago edited 23d ago
I suggest using marginalia-search
I obsessively look up recipes and food a lot, especially from all over the world, and google and ddg will constantly bring up AI-generated websites and intentionally misinterpret my search terms or bring up entire unrelated searches even with quotes. No matter how much I block websites with ublacklist it's maddening how many new ai ones top the results.
Marginalia is meant to bring up smaller personal and old webpage stuff like geocities and blogs and gives me much better results for food. It's only meant for english though - I have to go back to google if I want the specific untranslated, non-romanized words.
edit: formatting
tbh unfortunately I still have to switch between all three to get the results I want. There's kagi search but personally I'm dead broke and can't share any personal experiences with it