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Google execs admit users are ‘not quite happy’ with search experience after Reddit blackouts (www.cnbc.com)
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Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agree. Something definitely changed in the last two years. It's unbelievably bad now, to the point where I give up if the answer isn't among the first 3 results. It's insane.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

As others mentioned, Google just straight up ignores most of my quotes and excludes and just shows me what it wants to. Shockingly bad, I remember a time when if I couldn't find something, it was my own failing.