Google is useless
It seems an update for Google’s core, the search engine, is long overdue. Apart from tons of spam in it, Google also tries to be smarter than me, providing me with more useless search results. Ever tried searching for ubuntu islsm? islsm is a wireless driver. Apparently, Google doesn’t believe me I’m capable of writing my search terms correctly, so it silently corrects my search term to ubuntu islam. Yahoo is at least honest:
We have included ubuntu islam results - Show only ubuntu islsm
But, sadly, the best one in team is Live Search, which barely asks me, whether I’ve meant “ubuntu islam”.
That used to be Google’s default behaviour. It seems these glory times are over.
dead on. though it’s probably more of a downgrade that’s needed here. i tried searching for
iswitch emacs debian
recently and got a whole bunch of “how do i switch” or “-i switch” results… if i drop “debian” from the search terms it works fine though… apparently google is afraid of displaying only the “about 369” results i get with
“iswitch” emacs debian
and thus inserts a space in one of my search terms, coincidentally rendering the “about 2,090” results completely useless… nice going.
btw. your religiously inspired example seems to be fixed now, or may the number of results just got large enough to warrant searching for the terms you actually entered in that particular case.
sorry about the formating there, i didn’t realize wordpress eats carriage returns… bad wordpress
oh, and msn now shows the same behavior as yahoo, making — for this short moment at least — google the best choice for this particular search… welcome to the ever-changing world of web services ;-)
Exactly, Google has lost it’s relevance and it’s soul (if it ever had one). It is full of ads and sites looking to sell you something. It is useless as a search engine if you are looking for real information and not looking to buy things. Google, you fail seriously. 2 thumbs down at this end.
Mike T.
Mike I totally agree with you - I am utterly fed up with Google now. The worst are the results that just copies your search phrase and displays - you click on it and it has nothing useful for you - unfortunately this occurs a lot and comes up as the majority of the search results. boo to Google.
google is almost completely useless, it does sometimes give you what you want, but not always, you could look up something and it will give you something completely off topic, it will give you all the result the have the same words in that sentence, but not the one you are looking for.
Google search is useless for the student. Never gives the correct site name to elp them. It is rubbish and total time waste.
just came across this new type of search engine, http://www.spotthings.com. They give you useful information, not just links