In 2008 you could do a web search and have relevant real results
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bombing
Google had (mostly) solved this problem by 2007. I couldn’t name another search engine that could claim the same.
But the process of Spamdexing has been an ongoing war of the websites since the nineties. Google never fully solved it, they just did a better job than most up until the big executive shift in 2018.
The spam site takeover of your search results in the modern day is as much a consequence of modernization in Spamdexing as it is any search engine’s own failures. None of those AI content mill sites existed to index 20 years ago
kossa@feddit.org 2 days ago
You can change search provider and have the experience back ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
devedeset@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
I use DuckDuckGo and it is better in general, but still has a big pitfall with AI generated websites. I’ve used some others like SearXNG but those feel experimental at best. I’m willing to hear about viable alternatives.
kossa@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Kagi is where it’s at. Changed my search experience for the better like crazy.