I have always found Google search to be spectacularly good, especially compared with their predecessors or even things like Bing. But I recently ran a query that consistently gets a bad response and I'm wondering if its somehow due to my personal Google profile or if others see the same thing.<p>Now, I've noticed more advertising in the results, usually when searching for something that could be a commercial product, and a plethora of sponsored results. I'm not talking about that. The search I ran is for 'scheme tutorial'. The first result I get---even before YouTube videos---is Arun Muthu's Programming in Scheme — The Quick and Definitive Scheme Tutorial from 2020. It seems like a lovely tutorial, but it is only Part One, with no other parts.<p>The only reason I can see for its prominence is that it is posted on Medium. Of course, Part One is the only thing posted by Muthu.<p>Can anyone else reproduce this?
I get the same thing in an incognito window. Searching from my regular phone from Oregon.<p>For what it's worth, ChatGPT gives a few examples too. I use Google less and less these days because it's so spammy and useless. The LLMs seem a lot better for the time being, at least until they become ad ridden wastelands too.