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1. FuturisticLover ◴[] No.46241393[source]
Google search results have gone shit. I am facing some deindexing issues where Google is citing a content duplicate and picking a canonical URL itself, despite no similar content.

Just the open is similar, but the intent is totally different, and so is the focus keyword.

Not facing this issue in Bing and other search engines.

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2. daemonologist ◴[] No.46241457[source]
I've also noticed Google having indexing issues over the past ~year:

Some popular models on Hugging Face never appear in the results, but the sub-pages (discussion, files, quants, etc.) do.

Some Reddit pages show up only in their auto-translated form, and in a language Google has no reason to think I speak. (Maybe there's some deduplication to keep machine translations out of the results, but it's misfiring and discarding the original instead?)

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3. dev_l1x_be ◴[] No.46242057[source]
Amazong, Google is the same. Fake products, fake results, scammers left and right.
4. sischoel ◴[] No.46242720[source]
The issues with auto-translated Reddit pages unfortunately also happens with Kagi. I am not sure if this is just because Kagi uses Google's search index or if Reddit publishes the translated title as metadata.

I think at least for Google there are some browser extensions that can remove these results.

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5. Aldipower ◴[] No.46242894[source]
Yeah, Google search results are almost useless. How could they have neglected their core competence so badly?
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6. adaptbrian ◴[] No.46243015[source]
B.c they shifted their internal KPI in 2018 roughly, to keeping users on Google and not tuning towards users finding what they are looking for ie. Clicking off google.

This is what has caused the degradation of search quality since then.

7. black_puppydog ◴[] No.46243031{3}[source]
The Reddit issue is also something that really annoys me and i wish kagi would find some way to counter it. Whenever I search for administrational things I do so in one of three languages, German, French or English depending on which context this issue arises in. And I would really prefer to only get answers that are relevant to that country. It's simply not useful for me to find answers about social security issues in the US when I'm searching for them in French.