I think the problem goes farther back than that. That might be when it got worse, but the place where Google search started to lose its way (IMHO) was when they removed + as an operator so it wouldn’t screw up searches for Google+ (their social network at the time). That was the first time they truly put something else ahead of search.
It was also before 2019 that Google search stopped doing what you told it- trying to infer what it thought you meant rather than what you typed in. Verbatim mode makes that better but it’s still not perfect.
I don’t think anyone’s made a better search though. And to be honest I don’t think it’s possible anymore without MEGA resources.
Prabhakar Raghavan
I think the problem goes farther back than that. That might be when it got worse, but the place where Google search started to lose its way (IMHO) was when they removed + as an operator so it wouldn’t screw up searches for Google+ (their social network at the time). That was the first time they truly put something else ahead of search.
It was also before 2019 that Google search stopped doing what you told it- trying to infer what it thought you meant rather than what you typed in. Verbatim mode makes that better but it’s still not perfect.
I don’t think anyone’s made a better search though. And to be honest I don’t think it’s possible anymore without MEGA resources.