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Google is bad, but people have no idea how bad search could actually get. Trying to find DPRK housing stats and DDG will only give me pages about recent canadian housing news.

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[–] Imnecomrade@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I've had searches so bad the entire first page is irrelevant to what you searched for and you have to go deep into several pages to find what should have obviously been the first.

[–] hotspur@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

It’s so bad I can’t comprehend how they’re achieving it. I guess the methods of identifying pages have just been so scrambled and manipulated that the algos just pick up the meta language and not really content anymore, so there’s a coherence there but it doesn’t necessarily relate much to your actual search objective anymore?