Some years ago when i wanted to search for something, my only concern was to guess how it may be written dont on a page, so Google can find it for me.
I could click next as long as i needed. I could refine query to get better results.
But now result list is extremely limited. Refining query gives the same result.
Google was once a search engine that allowed to discover content. Now, it is not.
You could write an article and Google indexed it and showed it if people searched for it. Now it does not work that way. If your audience visits other pages than yours, it will show irrelevant info from these pages rather than perfect match from yours.
And also Patelisms. Once, a short post was enought for Google to index it. Now it has to be essencially a book. It does not need to answer any question, as long as it has a length of a book and thousands of illustrations.
I wished there was a search engine that finds pages matching query, not guessing answers. Giving the freedom to explore rather than giving cheap crappy answers.
> If your audience visits other pages than yours, it will show irrelevant info from these pages rather than perfect match from yours.
I empirically disagree. For me Google often shows small sites with perfect matches before big sites with vague matches and a few of my small sites also rank very well next to giants.
> I wished there was a search engine that finds pages matching query, not guessing answers.
It only proves Google is unpredictable. And this is also a sad reality. I often see "my" Google is better adjusted to find some answers but extremely lame at 90% of other queries.
Ps. Quotation marks help in some degree. But the response pool is often very small. Also sometimes quotation marks return broader results than expected to
I could click next as long as i needed. I could refine query to get better results.
But now result list is extremely limited. Refining query gives the same result.
Google was once a search engine that allowed to discover content. Now, it is not.
You could write an article and Google indexed it and showed it if people searched for it. Now it does not work that way. If your audience visits other pages than yours, it will show irrelevant info from these pages rather than perfect match from yours.
And also Patelisms. Once, a short post was enought for Google to index it. Now it has to be essencially a book. It does not need to answer any question, as long as it has a length of a book and thousands of illustrations.
I wished there was a search engine that finds pages matching query, not guessing answers. Giving the freedom to explore rather than giving cheap crappy answers.