Google is bad and obviously being gamed and Google clearly doesn't care. But it's still better than Bing. One example: if I search for a part #, like an IC, Google at least tries to show me some actual information about the part (datasheet, manufacturer web site, etc) on the first results page. Bing shows me nothing but SEO spam from people trying to sell the part for <i>pages</i>. In my experience, if advertising exists for a search term, Bing wants to show me every bit of it before giving me any useful information. Unfortunately, DuckDuckGo seems only mildly better, but to be fair I've only been using it casually.
Is Google Getting Worse? <a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-google-getting-worse/" rel="nofollow">https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-google-getting-worse/</a><p>By Stephen J. Dubner, Nov 16, 2022, audio+transcript, runtime: 60:32<p>Sources:<p>> Marissa Mayer, co-founder of Sunshine; former C.E.O. of Yahoo! and vice president at Google<p>> Ryan McDevitt; professor of economics at Duke University<p>> Tim Hwang, media researcher and author; former Google employee<p>> Sridhar Ramaswamy, C.E.O. and co-founder of Neeva; former senior vice president for advertising and commerce at Google<p>> Elizabeth Reid, vice president of Search at Google<p>> Jeremy Stoppelman, C.E.O. and co-founder of Yelp
google is awful now. i'd say the last time i had a relevant search result that wasn't some copy/pasted edit from another uncited source was probably 2007