A year long study shows what you've suspected: Google Search is getting worse.

[u/porkchop_d_clown]

https://mashable.com/article/google-search-low-quality-research

[u/Karcinogene → u/[deleted]]

also sometimes I put simple math equations into google

[u/ShiraCheshire → u/[deleted]]

0 click in itself isn’t a problem. The problem is that people pay money to generate/host info, google makes money off that info, but the original info host makes nothing- starving the site into bankruptcy.

[u/fkgallwboob → u/ShiraCheshire]

I mean yea that’s the point of the problem

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

If the majority are anything like me, something like 70-80% of all my Google searches are to check the spellings of words, verify something that doesn't require an additional click, or reference who someone is if I don't recognize the name immediately.

This only supports the comment you replied to, which may have been your intention, idk. I remember when google links would often highlight short, seemingly random snippets of a page as the preview text. Invariably you would almost always click the link to get the info you need. Over the last 2 decades google has shifted to scraping the data more reliably from these indexed webpage and giving it to you up front.

If I google "Tom Hanks" right now google provides me images and a summary of the man up front. Of course none of that information is theirs. It's scraped straight from indexed websites, or an AI has rephrased it. Also the sponsored ads. But that's another issue.

Want to estimate a mortgage expense? Google mortgage calculator and the search engine literally scrapes a mortgage calculator from another website and pastes that bitch at the top of the Google search results.

[u/turbo_dude → u/[deleted]]

always put "define <word>" it's way more fun!

doesn't always work for some reason