It's definitely deteriorating, and the worst part is that it completely ignores quotes if it thinks you meant something else, and shows the results for what it thinks you want. Completely useless in a lot of cases
Getting this wrong is probably why people think we need more than definitive assertions from people operating from subjective impression.
Changing a letter in the query, it says, right at the top:
Showing results for "but when therefore is an adverb"
No results found for "but when therefore is tan adverb"I rarely see "No results found".
That is a completely valid result in my opinion.
I often see pages that doesn't contain my search string.
Sometimes is is something trivial like
query: "something about x y and z"
result contains: "... something about x. Y and Z however..."
which is understandable.
Often though I have no clue how a result got there. Maybe it is linked to using a certain text (link bombing)? I don't know.
But no, when I search for realsense "failed to recconect" Google returns pages that contain neither realsense nor recconect [2]. They offer me a supreme court opinion, a review of a car dealership, and a facebook church service.
Correcting the spelling of a query is one thing - but also completely ignoring other keywords? I can see why there are so many people posting about the poor quality of Google's search results.
[1] https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/blob/5ff27fca... [2] https://imgur.com/a/okYV5V2