Contains rant. You have been warned.
Last week, when searching for a "Link instruments LA4850" image, it returned about 100 images of the logic analyzer I wanted an image of, which I expected. Today, it gives me pictures of tits and cell phones. Unexpected.
What. The. Fuck.
This happens nearly everywhere - image and web search. The results of a specific search change from day to day. Not only do they change, they become less relevant over time. Google search has gotten more and more useless recently. How can I force it to return consistent results? Aside from using a search engine with superior consistency like Bing or Yahoo. Or typing random addresses and hoping for relevance.
Also, this garbage happened in a similar search. I search for the name <firstname> Fogarty. It returns a shitton of FogErty results, and says "Did you mean fogerty?" "Including search results for fogerty." So i try again with -fogerty and -"fogerty". It doesn't display the message, but still ONLY RETURNS FOGERTY results.
Is there any way to force google to actually search for the request I enter, rather than picking random words and searching for them instead.
Also, scrolling on this post creation page is totally fucked, because the frames are not constructed for low-resolution monitors (By low resolution, I mean it doesn't fit in 1366x768 without clipping).
In short, Google has gotten the world to rely on it, and now is becoming seriously fuckered. The more they improve it, the worse it gets. I DO NOT WANT FUCKING GARBAGE FEATURES IN MY SEARCH. I want to be able to type in a string and get results based on that string. DO NOT try to interpret my results. DO NOT suggest social crap. DO NOT offer me other ways to search. DO NOT try to search on an abstraction of my query. and, most importantly, MAKE SURE RESULTS ARE UNIQUE. I am sick of seeing the same site featured in 70 of the top 100 search results. If an article is the in the results, i get individual links to each page in the article. Or if it's a forum page, I get individual links to EACH FUCKING PAGE. Want to implement a feature your customers might actually give two fucks about? (This one's free)
ADD A WAY TO MARK RESULTS AS IRRELEVANT.
Or at least hide them from the results. Currently, the only way to manage this is to block the domain. From ALL searches. Which is bullshit. If it's not relevant for one search, that does not imply that it is irrelevant for all searches, or that I always want it blocked. Because I don't.
To hell with Google+. It has been generally received as terrible and unnecessary. I do not use it. I do not want to use it. Ever. Don't force that shit into my search results. And if I want youtube results, I'll click the damn "search youtube" button. I do not want 8 of the 10 results on each page to be youtube garbage.
These cannot be impossible changes. You have taken a good search engine and ruined it. Surely you can reverse the process.
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