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Has anyone noticed in the last few years that it has become utter crap?
It ignores anything after the first two words, at best, and gives you the most popular links with those few words in them.
Time to ditch it I think, its become useless.
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No I haven't noticed any change. I tried to Google: elephant sheep codeproject
Works like a charm!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Try: "elephant sheep site:codeproject.com" it works even better!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No no no, first result is a comment by Dalek Dave. It's confirmed, google is broken 
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You are really surprised that Google (or any other company that does something in the internet) serves its own good and not yours?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Am I surprised I got a sarky and irrelevant reply from someone?
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Welcome to the planet Earth. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: Welcome to the planet Earth -- don't let the door hit your @rse on the way out.
Leaving sentences unfinished is just plain lazy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yup - Google's a charitable foundation. You, of course, send regular donations to keep it up and running.
Sure it puts advertisers first - they're the ones who pay for Google.
(Also why the EU isn't worthy of sucking a monkey's (kss) for trying to über-fine Google for doing what it's always done and never kept a secret.
Nothing's free. Drink the Kool-Aide or brew your own. Nothing new here.
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Exactly what I meant. The consequence is that the search results are optimized towards more $$$ for Google, not to be more helpful for the user. Only the OP seems to be surprised by this.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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It's actually enlightened self interest on Google part. In order to maximize profits they need to maximize use. In order to maximize use they need to get the best possible responses and yet display the most relevant paid results. Ideally so relevant that users actually click-through.
That's why they keep their ranking algorithms secret - the idea is to decide for themselves the balance with minimal interference from junk like link-farms and such.
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I noticed it too. Then I was (and still am) forced to use Bing for 5 years... Not even the worst Google can match the best Bing in crappiness.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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For me google has degraded to the point where even webcrawler is better.
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den2k88 wrote: was (and still am) forced to use Bing
Why? How?
I sometimes use something called ixquick - basically it's mostly add filtered google with privacy built in, but it also lacks suggestions. (Also doesn't always match google results, but it's refreshing having a search engine just return search results.)
Sadly MS have broken bing just like every other product, with only the exceptions:
1. VS (excluding the installer which still auto installs without asking some extra crap), and,
2. SS (been a long while but I believe the DB is still OK, no idea if they broke the tools office though.)
- but SS still a problem, somehow SS needs 387 things installed messing up the installed programs list, and wtf depends on what? Also needs around 236 processes running full time. I don't get that, mysql maybe lags a bit but needs only 1 installation and 1 process - easy to manage, easy to clean up.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
modified 9-Jan-17 7:16am.
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Lopatir wrote: Why? How?
How: Google is not reachable from our network. Only a few MS sites and, after years of requests, CP and StackOverflow (due to the fact that MSDN, our only approved source of documentation, refers to these sites in its results).
Why: because our management comes from the era of manual labour in the fields and manages a software house precisely in the same way, even calling programmers "the software labourers". Don't expect any grain of salt in their brains, ever.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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On the contrary it is very rare for Google not to find me exactly what I search for.
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I'd have to agree - it works well for me (unlike Bing which couldn't find it's own ass with both hands and a map).
In fact, it seems to get better each time I use it - possibly it's the heuristics on previous searches making results more relevant, I don't know.
Perhaps the OP's problems are the things he searches for, rather than the results he gets...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Just IT stuff. It used to be very good at that.
I find I am having to put words in quotes to force them into the search, its getting very annoying.
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Well if you search for THAT, what do you expect! 
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*smut*
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Same here, but I stopped using them because I got sick of all the requests for personal information, the nagging demands that I read the twice-weekly "policy updates", the incessant insistence that I downgrade to a browser I don't like, etc.
If I want to talk to a buddy, I'll talk to a buddy. From a search engine, I only want search results.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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