the only cenario i actually use google search for but only in very rare occasions is when i am curious why i don't find more results in another search engine, i then sometimes want to validate "missing" results are also missing in other/minor search engines that could theoretically have hits instead of misses, but usually i don't find in google what i was already missing elsewhere, so mostly no gain, only sort of validation.
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It's worse: google.com has started to remove the "also available in English" button and defaults to the localized version based on IP geolocation on every call to the home page. Seriously, I wish that company every bad and rotten thing in the world.
Edit: For now, the only workaround I know is to append /en to the URL
I went digging and found one called Qwant which seems pretty good too.
In contrast to all the other comments here, Google has worked perfectly fine for me in the past, and still continues to give me the results I want. I have uBlock Origin to avoid sponsored results and live in the EU, so maybe that helps. So far I haven't felt the need to switch search engines because Google works perfectly fine.
It's been getting worse for a while, just like anything sold by a large corporation, but I have noticed it getting especially bad in the last year or so. Even Google Maps is getting less accurate. I never used to have a problem with it, but now it can't figure out what road I'm on usually a couple times per trip
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No but only because I stopped using google search years ago.
It has been getting worse for the last decade.
It seems gradual to me. It's a combination of Google's actions (They make money from ads and storefronts so they promote sites with ads and storefronts) and adversarial attacks on PageRank by spammers. PageRank used to work well until people started designing sites to game the system.
i don't know, i'm using qwant.com