Ask HN: Has anyone noticed it is getting hard to find stuff on Google?

1 points by notadev 7y ago ↗ HN

I remember using Dogpile.com for my search queries before a friend had introduced me to a new site called Google. The speed and accuracy between what Google offered and the other guys was night and day.

However, over the past 10 years or so, it is just so hard to find the right information. This isn't specific to any one industry or type of information, just that it _seems_ like it is getting harder and harder to quickly find what I am looking for. It is much more common for me to spend time trying different complex queries to filter through all the "noise".

Has anyone noticed a similar user experience? Does anyone know if there's any validity to what I think I'm experiencing? If so, what is the deal and how could I make Google just work again?

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Kazooie_Bird 7y ago ↗

Have you ever tried using Google Search Operators in your queries?

https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/

enginaar 7y ago ↗

Yes. It gets really frustrating at times when Google is ignoring quotes or other operators and keeps feeding me what it thinks I'm looking for. I try to use variety of different search engines depending on the topic. I use yandex quite a lot.