Google Search Results Changing

[gnuarm]

Google search results have been the same for a long time.  Recently, I've seen a lot of changes.  For a while, if I selected text on a page, and used the right click menu to select a Google search, it would open a new tab, next to the current tab.  Now, it opens a sidebar window on the same tab, but only in Chrome.  Also in Chrome, selecting text on a search results page, does not offer a search in the right click menu! 

Doing a Google search now, instead of pages, provides an endless page where you never run out of scrolling.  I find this much less intuitive.  I would use the page count to guide me as to how far I was going through the results.  Now, I find it much harder to get a feel for that.

Also, in Chrome only, the results seem to have a lot more "fluff", icons and the site name around each result.  Of course, this is also on the endless page now. 

It seems that Google is really good at fixing things that aren't broken.  I use newsgroups to discuss a number of topics.  At one time, Google Groups was an acceptable tool for that.  But they kept updating it until it is barely usable. 

WTF!!!???

[jonpaul]

Google is becoming just another sales and ad pusher, results of searching less and less useful.

We dumped it and use the more security and less ad infested Duckduckgo Go search engine in all our browsers.

Try it!

Jon

[Circlotron]

and less ad infested

Ad infested? Nothing a hosts file wont fix.

https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts

[wilfred]

What planet are you from? Google has always been in the business of selling advertising. You cannot distill down the essence of what they do more than that. It is just like McDonalds is a real estate company that sells hamburgers. Google sells details they learn about you to the advertiser.

Anyone who rants about what Google does and ignores their core business as the sole motivation for any changes is not behaving rationally.

[thm_w]

I still see the page numbers at the bottom of google search, maybe you have some chrome plugin or adware installed which is causing this.

[SiliconWizard]

Or do not use Chrome. Fixed.

[MrMobodies]

For a while, if I selected text on a page, and used the right click menu to select a Google search, it would open a new tab, next to the current tab.  Now, it opens a sidebar window on the same tab, but only in Chrome.  Also in Chrome, selecting text on a search results page, does not offer a search in the right click menu!

Doing a Google search now, instead of pages, provides an endless page where you never run out of scrolling. 

Another one of their experiments.

Good thing about Vivaldi (Chrome 90 dressed up) when I select a domain with the context menu, there is an option not only to open it but search too. On chrome the last one and old version I am using less off it just has one option to open it in context menu.

[RJSV]

Yeah I STILL hold that old, feeling; that it's my product, (at least the Google software reliant Alcatel phone), and being MY product, it will serve my needs...but it's not a T-shirt, or laundry soap.
   STILL, I wish, hope,...sigh.
   
   THAT phone listened / watched, as I mentioned the term 'Puzzle' into 'eevblog' forum discussion.
Couple days later, I get an AD; 'Interesting PUZZLER' for me to check out.
   It's kind of like living with a domestic staff, around the house (I'm not rich).  Where your 'staff' carefully watches your every move, often interjecting strange off-topic subjects, into your message, you are typing.

   Sometimes, lately, I noticed that just a bit of a finger sweep, across the smart phone keyboard, will create a 'smear' of text...: Usually completely foreign to whatever subject I had going.

[joeqsmith]

Someone else brought up duckduckgo.  While I like their OS and will continue to use it, I still block all MS related traffic at the router. 

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/the-impudence-of-microsoft-has-reached-new-(criminal)-heights/msg3129624/#msg3129624

[jonovid]

most misspellings are seen as advertising or non English
with large infestation of womansplaining  in the search results nowadays

[Infraviolet]

The trouble with search engines nowadays is they are increasingly trying to show you what they think you WANT to see, based on what other people saw when they made similar searches, I don't think they've realised what type of feedback lop that serves as. They no longer seem to show you things based on your actual keywords, but rather on what their machine learning algorithms think those keywords mean you are looking for.

[nardev]

I have an impression that all those "content creators" are flooding more and more different areas that i'm actually worried about future of web search. It already happened several times in recent past that i had to figure out better way of putting up words or to go through result page to find what i was looking for.

First several pages were simply full of useless articles just pretending to be the right content for what i was looking for.

Perhaps, we might need to pay for better results one day? Or Char GPT is going to be another interface with paid version?

Who knows what is ahead of us...

[EPAIII]

"Becoming"?

Google IS, and ALWAYS HAS BEEN an ADVERTISING COMPANY. Everything they do is aimed at selling their services to other companies that have products to sell. They have not now and never have had any other purpose. Their search service is not to serve your interests. It is designed to serve the interests of those PAYING customers. That is how they make their money.

Open your eyes.

Almost all the other FREE services and products on the internet are the same.

Google is becoming just another sales and ad pusher, results of searching less and less useful.

We dumped it and use the more security and less ad infested Duckduckgo Go search engine in all our browsers.

Try it!

Jon

[Infraviolet]

Sometimes you see "article" pages flooding out various queries where each article is a list of random questions marginally relating to one key word of your search, and every question is illiterately answered at that. I wonder if those sort of pages to take clicks from search results are being AI generated already?

[mendip_discovery]

"Becoming"?

Google IS, and ALWAYS HAS BEEN an ADVERTISING COMPANY. Everything they do is aimed at selling their services to other companies that have products to sell. They have not now and never have had any other purpose. Their search service is not to serve your interests. It is designed to serve the interests of those PAYING customers. That is how they make their money.

Open your eyes.

Almost all the other FREE services and products on the internet are the same.

Google is becoming just another sales and ad pusher, results of searching less and less useful.

We dumped it and use the more security and less ad infested Duckduckgo Go search engine in all our browsers.

Try it!

Jon

That is a bit unfair. I am old enough to remember the search engine wars. Google won because they had a search engine that worked and though they had adverts it was clear the were adverts but they were also not big flashy gifs or large flash animations. The adverts where just text and it was clear. If it wasnt for Google you would have AskJeeves or Yahoo! With the messy navigation and adverts that zoomed in all over the place.

The poison for google was when it stopped being about searching but about pleasing the investors and make more and more money.

There have been many issues that has faced search engines, some sites got all clever with SEO and they keyworded the site so well it got better placing yet had no real info on it. Much like those sites that allude to having the manual you want for you latest TEA moment. Now they are using bots to write sites that look to have useful into but it's about as informative and reliable than 80% of YouTube (reps you are in the 20%). Problem is finding the good info from the trash and if your google fu is good then you can work it to get good results more often than not, but I do get days where the Schwartz isn't with me and I get the same crap results as the rest if you.

[SiliconWizard]

"Becoming"?

Google IS, and ALWAYS HAS BEEN an ADVERTISING COMPANY. Everything they do is aimed at selling their services to other companies that have products to sell. They have not now and never have had any other purpose. Their search service is not to serve your interests. It is designed to serve the interests of those PAYING customers. That is how they make their money.

Open your eyes.

Almost all the other FREE services and products on the internet are the same.

Well yes, of course!

[Bud]

Google frequently updates its search results and user interface in order to improve the user experience and...

Can you tell what a spam bot account is and how to spot one?

[gnuarm]

Google frequently updates its search results and user interface in order to improve the user experience and provide more relevant information. These changes may include new features, such as the sidebar window and endless scrolling, as well as changes to the layout and design of the search results page. Some users may prefer the previous version of the search results page and find the changes confusing, while others may find the new features and layout to be an improvement. Google also frequently updates other products and services, such as Google Groups, in order to improve their functionality and usability.

Lol!!!  I don't see any quotes.  "in order to improve the user experience" has to be right from a web page somewhere, unless frequent exposure has embedded it into your brain.

It is simply amazing that you include Google Groups in this!!!!  IJDTMKL (I just dropped to my knees laughing).  I use Google Groups and it is the single worst user interface I have seen on the web, without having to purge it from my memory!!!  Every time they touch it, it gets worse.  Google Groups is one of the few places where 1.0 > 2.0 > 3.0, etc.  Google has never learned math.

Wait, this was humor and you left off the 

[thm_w]

I reported Mark Ruiz, even if they are not a bot they are posting misinformation in multiple threads so clearly have no clue.