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ThoseWeirdStones · 24/12/2025 15:10

Increasingly awful, the vast majority of results for any search (no matter how specific I am) brings either totally unrelated results to the top, or more.....bloody questions.
And most of these 'questions' are ridiculous. For example, say I search for 'how to get more fiber in my diet'
Most results will presume and anticipate me to have wanted higher PROTEIN, not fiber. If I search for vegetarian recipes or health adjacent info, it presumes, off the bat, that I wrote vegan.

And those ridiculous 'questions' that appear several results down the page, usually badly spelled or with questionable grammar: so your search for high fiber meals will result in:

  • What's the 30/50/70 rule for cancer
  • What's did Kurt Cobain think about God
  • What is fiber diets
  • Does veganism cause cancer

It's a shit show. It is either optimised to answer very low IQ queries, or presumes that I am under the age of 10.
I get that the algorithm is spewing the most searched for stuff up to the top, but it is usually the very worst and often only slightly related to what I asked. I wonder how far this will go before the damn thing is rendered useless.

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ThoseWeirdStones · 24/12/2025 15:46

Typically I am making countless spelling errors myself today, lol. I can't be arsed nipping downstairs for my specs.

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Shedmistress · 24/12/2025 15:44

It is increasingly completely bloody useless. Much like everything else.

ThoseWeirdStones · 24/12/2025 15:42

NotForTheMoneyandNotForTheApplause · 24/12/2025 15:33

Out of interest I googled the same search as you but using the English spelling of fibre and all of the first page of results did actually address the question. Do you think that because Google thinks you are American/you are American it's giving different results?

I am eternally confused by the spelling of fiber!, I have been known to use both spellings. You are right that many 'correct' results do appear, but the sourcing and presumptions are still dire. It gets really frustrating with vegetarianism, but if you really, really urge it on by adding 'ovo lacto', it will spew up several decent hits...... amongst a plethora of incorrect ones - still presuming you are vegan, so you don't eat cheese!

I searched for high fiber foods, with both spellings on an image search, and the vast majority of hits were high protein. IEven when they produced high fiber meals, they were pushing them as high protein, too.
tt recognises two things here, both food and the word 'high', so it runs ahead of itself, chooses the latest 'fad' and buggers it up.

I suppose it prioritises what is most popular at a given point, but it is a shitty way to run a search engine, enabling the crap to eternally float to the top. It also encourages a lack of diversity.

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NotForTheMoneyandNotForTheApplause · 24/12/2025 15:33

Out of interest I googled the same search as you but using the English spelling of fibre and all of the first page of results did actually address the question. Do you think that because Google thinks you are American/you are American it's giving different results?

Namechange568899542 · 24/12/2025 15:30

Yes it’s become shite and the sponsored results do not help.

I googled earlier which cars have front and rear cameras to get some inspo of what I might want at some point in the future as I find getting out from inbetween 2 cars on my busy street a challenge. A load of pics of cars for sale appeared along the top of the page, sponsored dealership ads, none of which had a front camera. The Google Ai result listed various models, looked up the first 3 on the list and they also didn’t have both cameras so I gave up.

catontheironingboard · 24/12/2025 15:15

It used to be great. Now it’s been crapped up by all the nonsense AI slop that techbros all assume we want. But nobody wants this dross. It’s going to eat itself pretty soon once it’s finally crapped up all of the formerly-useful things about the internet beyond repair.

EmbroideredGardener · 24/12/2025 15:14

Use Ecosia instead

TableRunners · 24/12/2025 15:13

I'm not even being sarcastic.

ThoseWeirdStones · 24/12/2025 15:12

Aye, you're not kidding! Grin

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TableRunners · 24/12/2025 15:10

Google search is an advertising forum. With some search results tacked on.

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