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Google, then vs now (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I miss when search engines would just tell you if they didn't find anything. Now it's "hmm, we removed some of your terms in order to show you lots and lots of results instead of none!"

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Putting the terms in quotes helps sometimes

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The more I do quotes, the less I get nowadays. I have completely given up on Google search. It has been terribad. I use Startpage and DDG now.