| Google search results poor quality - Bing giving better results. | JaredNJames | 8/27/12 8:32 AM | For the past few weeks I've noted that the quality of my results have gone down hill drastically. For example, if I sign out and clear all history / cache etc and search for "dzus latches" it shows me a variety of results from many websites. However |
| Re: Google search results poor quality - Bing giving better results. | JaredNJames | 8/28/12 4:39 AM | Just searched for "camfil gt7 bag filter" and was swamped by some site called "gearzap" trying to sell me a Samsung Galaxy tab. Bloody hell Google, sort it out. |
| Re: Google search results poor quality - Bing giving better results. | Sarah Me | 8/28/12 10:42 AM | Hi JaredNJames, Thanks for providing the very detailed feedback about these results. Would you mind filling out this feedback form so that I can try and investigate further? Thank you!Sarah |
| Re: Google search results poor quality - Bing giving better results. | JaredNJames | 8/28/12 3:16 PM | Well I filled it out, but it giving general feedback doesn't exactly help me or guarantee a result. The results are now getting worse. I searched for "convert cubic metres to cubic millimetres" and just had a load of links to facebook pages. What go |
| Re: Google search results poor quality - Bing giving better results. | Sarah Me | 8/28/12 3:42 PM | Thanks for filling it out. Would mind also taking a screenshot and letting me know if you have any extensions enabled? |
| Re: Google search results poor quality - Bing giving better results. | JaredNJames | 8/28/12 11:23 PM | Thanks for the reply. I have no extensions enabled and the problem occurs on a fresh install of Ubuntu, Windows, an iPad and my Android phone. Tested in both Firefox and Chrome. If searching without being signed in and the cache / cookies / history |
| Re: Google search results poor quality - Bing giving better results. | JaredNJames | 8/28/12 11:26 PM | OK, as above: signed out and everything cleared. One screenshot of perfect results. |
| Re: Google search results poor quality - Bing giving better results. | JaredNJames | 8/29/12 2:13 AM | Slightly off topic, but suddenly Gmail is refusing to filter spam. My inbox is being inundated with it. Have I done something to annoy Google? |
| Re: Google search results poor quality - Bing giving better results. | Sarah Me | 8/29/12 2:00 PM | Thanks JaredNJames! The screenshots are really helpful. I assure you that you haven't done anything to annoy Google. This isn't personal :) While I can't help with Gmail spam (you'd have to take it over to the Gmail forum, I'm working on the case of |
| Re: Google search results poor quality - Bing giving better results. | JaredNJames | 8/29/12 2:10 PM | Hmm, interesting. I enabled instant (whilst signed in) and the results were fine. Out of curiosity, I disabled instant (still signed in) and then set it to provide only ten results per page (instead of 100 as I normally have). This solved the proble |
| Re: Google search results poor quality - Bing giving better results. | Sarah Me | 8/29/12 2:15 PM | Thank you for being so on top of this! I've seen similar reports and am glad we found a common thread. I'm glad you can work with 10 results and multiple pages for now while we work on this. Thanks again for all of your attention and detail with me! |
| Re: Google search results poor quality - Bing giving better results. | pcampagna | 10/30/12 1:43 PM | So Sarah, this continues to happen when I do searches. When is Google going to actually fix it? I see people complain, I fill out the forms to complain I fill out forms for "suggested Feedback" "Unexpected search results?" etc and I still have it hap |
| Re: Google search results poor quality - Bing giving better results. | JaredNJames | 10/30/12 2:12 PM | You again? Are you deliberately ignoring my replies to your other posts or are you simply mentally deficient? I'm sorry but you are playing dumb here to promote a conspiracy there is no evidence for (remember I asked you for screenshots for proof and |