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Isn't that how search engines came to existence, that intelligence people needed such computer system that handle disorganized collection of enemy documents to be sifted and correlated by specific key words and expressions?

Is it that they no longer have a classified on-prem Google, or that they have difficulties with Algolia or Elasticsearch, or that Google dominance is starting to come back at them?

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Things like this remind me of how helpful a personal search engine that actually works would be. Google assistant wasn’t bad when now on tap was out, but with all their fancy ai wiz Google could do a really thorough job if they wanted, regardless of if it was at the 3 letter orgs or on your email.

I wonder why Search Engines are said to be getting worse?

Because they keep optimizing for ad clicks over accuracy, and at some point you hit a threshold where people just no longer feel like they're getting the data they want. At first it was one ad, and one or two clickbait content farms on page one, and people didn't mind, but these days it's 2-3 ads and 90+% content farms, and people are really wondering why they bother.

It's why gen z and alpha – who've never experienced a search engine prioritizing their needs over ad revenue – tend to go straight to youtube or other sites (and now AI), because search engines in their experience have never worked.

Self peasantization isn't very attractive

Google at one point actually started including their ads among the search results so you can barely tell the difference, whereas in the past the ads were in the side bar where you knew they were ads.

That tells you everything about where they are been prioritizing their energies.

Google is slowly getting out of the search engine business is my guess. That’s the only way I can make sense of it. That they’re purposefully doing a terrible job.

Or the internet is being gradually completely censored leaving only the big sites that are controlled by whoever is in power, as well as a sea of harmless spam that provides the illusion of lack of censorship.

Nah I registered a domain last week and put content up in 48 hours

Because google, et al. gave up on fighting SEO optimization and now AI generated BS articles. They just serve up whatever their old algorithms serve up because they survive on market share and "familiarity" for the most part.

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