Amiga.org

Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / General => Topic started by: T_Bone on March 03, 2005, 12:37:39 AM

Title: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: T_Bone on March 03, 2005, 12:37:39 AM
It seems over the past two months Google has been getting really bad in regular text searches.

Today it finds 0 links for "best desktop font"

Is there something better anyone else has found? Google is getting bad.
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: Karlos on March 03, 2005, 01:33:22 AM
Perhaps it got bored senseless of such requests :-)
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: whabang on March 03, 2005, 11:10:59 AM
All you get on Google, are links to shopping sites.
I personally use www.mamma.com - The mother of all search engines.
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: Turambar on March 03, 2005, 12:30:45 PM
Google is being ruined by people artificially increasing their page ranking and people paying to have their page listed :/
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: cecilia on March 03, 2005, 01:47:15 PM
best desktop font (http://www.google.com/search?q=best+desktop+font&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)

google loves me  :love:  :knuddel:
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: Vincent on March 03, 2005, 02:02:28 PM
Quote
cecilia wrote:
google loves me  :love:  :knuddel:

Indeed, 4,830,000 results can't be wrong ;-)
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: whabang on March 03, 2005, 02:42:29 PM
Sexual harrasment? (http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Asv-SE%3Aofficial&q=sex&btnG=S%C3%B6k&meta=):-D
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on March 03, 2005, 03:11:48 PM
Quote

cecilia wrote:
best desktop font (http://www.google.com/search?q=best+desktop+font&sourceid=opera&num=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)

google loves me  :love:  :knuddel:
You forgot the brackets, wich were clearly stated in this thread. :-P
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: cecilia on March 03, 2005, 03:42:59 PM
well, you can do a search for brackets yourself, then  :lol:
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: on March 03, 2005, 04:16:07 PM
Quote
brackets


These are brackets ( )
These are quotation marks " "

:-D
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: cecilia on March 03, 2005, 04:59:53 PM
actually, these (http://images.google.com/images?q=brackets&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi) are brackets :-P
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: Vincent on March 03, 2005, 05:31:42 PM
Quote

cecilia wrote:
these (http://images.google.com/images?q=brackets&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi)

:lol:
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on March 03, 2005, 07:56:16 PM
me not can good write English very... :oops:
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: whabang on March 03, 2005, 08:12:45 PM
Baah! Bicycle helmets!
I usen't them did when kid was I, and damage none I have taken!
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on March 03, 2005, 08:20:43 PM
Quote

whabang wrote:
Baah!
uh oh, ASCII alert!
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: on March 03, 2005, 08:31:45 PM
Quote

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
Quote

whabang wrote:
Baah!
uh oh, ASCII alert!


"Aah didnae bunk of schoo f'fifteen feckin' years just so yous could tek the feckin piss oot ah mah lack o' grammar and punctuational skills! Where's mah dictionary?"
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: on March 03, 2005, 09:55:22 PM
Quote

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
Quote

whabang wrote:
Baah!
uh oh, ASCII alert!


Does ASCII Fiend have a slightly older cousin called EBCDIC Warrior?  And the little sister Unicode Minx? ;-)

Karlos?
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: Karlos on March 04, 2005, 01:24:38 AM
Only if they are sweet and innocent. Otherwise ASCII could lose his place as the world's most irate sequence of three characters...
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: Karlos on March 04, 2005, 01:29:03 AM
Quote

mdma wrote:

"Aah didnae bunk of schoo f'fifteen feckin' years just so yous could tek the feckin piss oot ah mah lack o' grammar and punctuational skills! Where's mah dictionary?"


"Ah feck, see? Ah told ye, I cannae even find th' word mah fekkin' grammar is so kietch! 'Course I meant tae say 'theo...' 'theo..' 'theodopolis'. Aye, tha fekkin thing yea use tae correct y' loosy language."
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: Karlos on March 04, 2005, 01:36:17 AM
Quote

Speelgoedmannetje wrote:
me not can good write English very... :oops:


A turkish uni friend of mine had a default phrase he'd use on any salespeople etc that came to the door or called. It was a cracker, he'd put on this really heavy accent and announce:

"I'm apology, I don't speak england very bestly."

Killed me every time :lol:
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: T_Bone on March 04, 2005, 01:43:58 PM
Found this site http://www.cantfindongoogle.com/

Half the people can't find what they're looking for because of the dumb things they try in a search.

Quote

Really looking for: I\'m dying to know the name of a song that i heard someone playing some 2 years ago at camp (Seeds of Peace), i really can\'t remember ANYTHING about it. That\'s quite funny. It\'s probably a 90s song, sung by a girl, the rythm is probably similar to \"It\'s All About Money\" by Meja.
Queries tried: "Can't remember song" "Can't remember songs" "Cant remember song/s" "can't recall song", etc...


Like google is supposed to be psychic and know the song you can't remember.  :roll:  :lol:

[/quote]
Really looking for: What is my math homework for today?
Queries tried: Math homework today Montemurro M3
Comments:[/quote]

 :lol:

Quote

Really looking for: The name and/or artist of a song. Female singer, only real lyrics I remember are just her voice saying "do do do" over and over to the beat of the song. And a part of a line that goes something like "I was sitting on the corner".
Queries tried: You can imagine how unsuccessful one might be searching for "do do do". heh. I tried searching for variations of "sitting on the corner" and cancelling out artist names that weren't the right one (eg: -"grandmaster flash" ). No luck.


Lyrics are usually a piece of cake. Sometimes it helps to filter out junk by including the word "lyrics"

Quote

Really looking for: How to Turn £3 into £10,000 in 30 Days
Queries tried: http://www.angelfire.com/mo3/turn3into10000/
Comments: click on comments for more info, worth a look!


And then it all comes back to spam.
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: T_Bone on March 04, 2005, 01:47:56 PM
Here's a *MUST GOOGLE*.

Your usual username, and your most used password. Surprisingly my username was posted with one of my passwords in a textfile cached by google. Scary. Glad I no longer use a single password.
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: Dan on March 05, 2005, 12:27:36 AM
Google has always sucked. Back when Altavista was the best things were much easier to find. Remmeber when searches had a boolesk logic syntax:
Amiga&java&!(tao|amigade)

half the time on google I only find:
www.german-porn-warez-spam.de (http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&c2coff=1&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Asv-SE%3Aofficial&as_qdr=all&q=german+porn+warez+spam&btnG=Search&lr=lang_de)
:lol:

Why are the germans competing with the russians at search spaming?
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: T_Bone on March 05, 2005, 03:00:34 AM
Woah. Webcrawler finds hits for "Best Desktop Font".
Only engine that returned a hit so far.
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: T_Bone on March 18, 2005, 06:32:50 PM
 :roflmao:

Google is improving... now THIS page shows up as the only result!  :lol:
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: Vincent on March 18, 2005, 07:40:17 PM
:lol:
Title: Re: Is Google starting to suck?
Post by: whabang on March 20, 2005, 11:57:41 AM
I always used Webcrawler when the web was new. It's directory search only, eh?