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100% the page ranking system is too easy to abuse. So a lot of garbage gets to the top of results.
But the internet is just too big to do proper index searches like the old days.
16 2 ReplyGoogle sometimes tells me there were only 4 results (and none of them are the thing I'm searching). It's super annoying when it's something I know is online.
6 0 ReplyIt’s super annoying when it’s something I know is online.
That may also simply no longer be true. Things do disappear from the internet; quite often actually.
What's the thing you were looking for? I want to try whether Kagi can dig it up.
5 0 ReplyGoogle has twice told me this.
But I got the page by searching browser history. The page refreshed too (not cached).
5 0 ReplyYes, I know things are taken down but that's not what I'm talking about at all. By "something I know is online" I mean that literally.
For example, cases where I was trying to use google to get straight to it instead of navigating multiple menus on a website.
Or a website I was at the previous day but I don't want to wade through my search history to get back there.
Then when google fails I go and navigate to it myself and it is still there.
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