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Google released an API for the web results. People need to learn to use it.
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You're most welcome!
Google results have been ass for over a decade
Ehhh. I've found them to be more reliable for certain kinds of searches - government records and the like - than DDG, yahoo or bing.
As far as general websites and social media shit - yeah, it's a hot mess.
Image search on bing is pretty decent right now, though there's no guarantee how long that will last.
Google's image searches (I primarily look for royalty-free graphics) are now keyed to the sites like shutterstock, dreamstime and adobe which leaves a lot to be desired.
People learned to game the system because the internet became literally every type of media to everyone, which of course made the arms race for eyeballs completely ruin it all because now everything is about money now. So those cute little blogs or recipe websites or people making videos just out of passion are absolutely drowned out by people desperately competing to make money. So now we are in a situation where we need filters to keep the crap out, but the companies who make money off the crap are preventing the filters from working until a new filter comes out and the cycle continues. AI is the new filter. Google wants to make their own filter, but make it flawed eventually so the crap can come back. It's a vicious cycle of shit.