what is this intro song you use? it's great

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Reddit will never become the new google ... first of all it's not a search engine, it would take 100 times more time or more to find what you are looking for. .. second reddit is a comunity and has a lot of restruction and rules, it's very very easy do get banned from a channel, for a mistake of the mod or your, or for some dumb rule invented by the channel ruler. So it has limits that a good search engine doesn't have. It's also much harder to use for peoples that aren't proficient with computers or websites.

Google search should simply introduce an AI that understand what you are typing and can actually find what you want, insted of giving you wrong links and fake websites that just want some attention. Also the AI should avoid to give you what you don't want to see. One of the major issues is that now google remove links that he thinks you don't want, even though they are related, it's a very stupid search engine. Many times gives you the links that are more watched or have some kind of artificial priority, without giving you what you asked, which comes usually at the end of the page. For example in the pandemic it was rly hard to find a specific information about topic that had vaccine in the phrase .. the engine AI always thought i was looking for informations about the vaccines and the covid, when i wasn't.

What google and also UKposts are doing here is censorship. I bookmarked a lot of critical articles with my browser and even when I type the exact title of an online article into google search, the result won't show up. I basically have to type everything in brackets PLUS add the name of the website to get the result which I want to find, which basically means, if someone doesn't already know this information, he will never ever find the article browsing for this topic. I repeat it, this is a form of censorship, even if nothing is censored in the classical sense - if information doesn't show up, it's practically the same.

But for things you don’t want to buy!

Soon, it will feel like a prison.

@@Ubu987Soon is now.

Back a few years more, we had encyclopedia and thesaurus and maps on CD-rom. Wikipedia was launched 2001 and it took a decade before it surpassed books and CD-roms in useful article quantity, quality and reliability, and with faster updates than any company-upheld business could ever do. And ad-free. Global community working and moderating around the clock for free and paying everything.

@@atklm1 Oh man. I remember my dad giving me Grolier and Encarta CDs when I was a kid.

I typed in the exact name of my one playlist but didnt come up, everything but. Had to include my name and it showed up down the list. Yt is a symptom of google.

@@thorinbane there is a channel called sexycyborg that goes into this problem in depth with testing of her channel. bit of an oddball channel but she highlights the problem well. i'm a youtube mechanic and there are thousands of useful guides for home diy but youtube hides most of them. its so frustrating.

Please if anyone has found a way to find low-subscriber or smaller UKposts channels let me know. I've trying advanced search terms, keywords, etc but can't get any decent results. It makes it impossible to connect with other small channels. I'm trying to meet up with other musicians who are perhaps doing the same type of content as me - but all results are just silos of 500k+ sub channels.

@@heyitsmeian You can add a filter to only show very recent videos. That usually gives me other stuff. On Android it's in the menu right of the search box. I found no other way yet.

​@@pferdschur702 Thanks for the reply, this is basically my current and very unsatisfying method. I wish I could just search a topic and then filter by

True. Finding anything like engineering, deep technical stuff, datasheets is a pain. For instance, if you don't know nothing about exact pattern like amd64 programmers manual and looking for interrupts logic/architecture, you'll stuck on pseudo technical websites that will teach you to install updates, do sfc scannow, reset your windows or buy a new PC. I hate it when you literally cannot find anything useful about windows even when you took some logs, put service name in quotes etc, but those "solutions" to simply go for a new PC lol are shown up because google makes internet friendly for newbies

This, but for socializing. I miss being able to find people with similar interests, social skills, and level of intelligence. I'm not trying to make out like I'm amazing by any means.. but I know how to use punctuation, paragraphs, and the three variations of "there", and sometimes I even like reading for fun. I always loved being around creative and interesting people, many of whom were more driven and confident than myself. Now life feels so incredibly lonely, and I can't even use the most wonderful search & communication tool ever created to talk to other people. And now that more people than ever are meeting their romantic partners online, there's ZERO reason you shouldn't be able to search for the right person efficiently. Yet there isn't an app or site online now that'll let you search by interests and worldview. Hindsight is always 20/20 but I can't believe I mostly missed out, and I can't believe how fast everything became trash. Wish I could've forseen this.

Hi! That’s odd… I moved to a new place recently and was able to find manuals of all my home machines in the same way, brand and ID got me to the pdf easily. I’m just putting this out there as it’s a clear difference with your experience but I wonder why… I do believe you, but I’m just a bit baffled

It's like the Altavista days in 2003 after Yahoo's results died due to overreliance on Mozilla Directory (remember that?!). Then a new young startup came that revolutionized my life for the next 18 years (Google!!) Not since 2022, however...

Same! I needed to find the user manual for a microwave that curiously didn't have a "Cook Time" button. Instead, all I got were shopping links to modern microwaves made by the same brand. Google wasn't even trying to find the exact model number I typed in quotation marks!

Yandex searching engine is the only one that give you whatever you search without advertising and censorship

The growing number of expressionless AI narrations for videos is a new curse. Some uploaders seem to write or program scripts for non-ending talk over videos.

Yeah I’ve been getting poorly written AI articles too!

​@@Gabdoon2 true. The only problem in Yandex is that's in Russian language. It's a hassle to translate every time I search something and not everything is translated to English. Yandex must launch an English version for international users. It will be great if they do that. I don't wanna deal with google because it's absolute trash!

@@Gabdoon2 Yandex is fantastic, it's what I mostly use now.

@@haobinlu THAT'S A BROWSER

@@Kromiball yes but they have a native search engine, it's 80% compared to Google

@@fadipola7533 Ah, I see... I've never heard of it.

Google has a tendency to latch onto one word and only show results for that. It's weird.

Gave up on google, chat gpt nowadays.

Yeah... When i have more than one page of resulsts i am ectstic, since i have more to choose from.. Sadly it is way more frequent for me not to have resulsts or to have very few in my searches. i remember the days when i used to have thousands of resulsts if not millions on more popular topics, given they very less relevant on average, but it was waaay easier to find something and you rarely hit a wall of "what else do i do to find shit" all you had to do is just keep searching...

I remember Alta Vista that bragged about giving the most results. Reducing the web from 1 billion to 1 million pages was not useful. Enter Google, that, at the time, decided that the goal of a search engine was not to provide the most results, but to provide the most useful results. Google became so good that for a time, the saying was "if it not on the first page it does not exist." Now we are back into Alta Vista territory, where the useful results can be anywhere.

At least they still have pages. So many sites have done away with pages in favor of doom scrolling friendly pages that keep adding more and more results as you get to the bottom of the ones that you've got. Good luck skipping to page 20 of the thread if you know that's where you want to go without having to load the previous 19 pages worth of content.

More pages more ads!

Is there a way one can exclude business and stores from a search?

I feel like there are so many google features like this that I forgot about.

For some reason there no way of changing the voice on Google Translate.

Yeah, it was so usefull

Thats was directly gagging free speech for complainers censoring information instead of enforcing language and grace standards for time outs, not politics.

Google is the enemy that sequesters info and aids the evil globalists. As for finding what you search for, ask ya mama.

bing

Yes, it also feels very patronising. Forcibly trying to shove you into some sort of lowest common denominator of "the average searcher."

If you used to do SEO then you are the reason it has gotten that bad. Was it worth an extra few confused clicks?

I feel that comment so much !! Searching on UKposts is now more accurate than searching on Google. 🙄 Sometimes, changing your language helps. Some searches are less biased in French, German or English. Some people also pointed the results depended on their locations.

i use brave browser and search engine it's surprisingly good

I get that all the time, just this year though, it's so frustrating when you have read it in a book in the past someone wants some proof they can read online, zilch

Yep. It’s really horrifying.

Yeah especially when you KNOW good and damn well there's no way you're the first or only person asking this question.

Been here a long time starting with what altavista and excite ... It's been getting worse and worse every year, it all junk results now and it's so weird this video came into my feed because yesterday I was searching a company/ brand name and got no results, that cant be right?? turns out now google only searches in your location for some things. I live in the sticks for 40 years, whatever I search for is not going to be related to my location.

@@losthorizions1415I just started putting Reddit on the end of my searches lately, so this video confirmed what I noticed was the new way to actually get it working lol

That might work for some stuff but bing has gone down the same rabbit hole. They now filter out some of my search results as well making certain things impossible to search for.

​@@donsolosuse duck duck go

@@xeosplayer1106 unless you are searching for obvious things duck duck go is hot ass

@@xeosplayer1106 duckduckgo user here, it's still regurgitating the same crap as google but with no sponsored links. seo articles are a nightmare and i ended up looking for answers in reddit instead.

Ddg uses Google as its source and lies about user privacy. Don't bother with it.

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@@chrismullin8304 for android, apple or pc?

Absolutely I’ve noticed it

Google literally turned into a product search...

YES! This is driving me nuts. You used to be able to use AND, OR, or an exact quote, but now it treats everything as AND or OR. Quotation marks are completely ignored. I don't understand why this is happening? I remember when Google was a good guy. Money corrupts, I guess.

And wildcard, boolean...basically the reasons Google worked somewhat decently. At least I'm not alone here. Hi, guys and gals.

I feel like this comment section is a support group. 😆 I've noticed it too! Exact wording doesn't matter. It'll search for whatever it feels is close enough to what you wrote, even when that results in the opposite of what you wanted. I've noticed times where it will ignore the minus operator, making certain searches completely impossible.

@@OuroborosChoked That's it, I'm hugging you now. We are going to get through this... Drinks, anyone?

Well, I'm not an expert, but the more search results you have to click, the more ads they can throw at you. I'm also getting annoyed by the search-results. Maybe I will search by Metager again, used to be the best before Googele. The Russian one also might be very good.

Not only controversial topics - I watched someone give up on using that search engine to find a brand of hand cream. Can we call it something other than a search engine?

Number one Google news source was the Bezos owned Washington Post last time I checked. Really shows how freedom died and propaganda rose

​@@buyerbware25 Advertising platform? Data-gathering engine? I could go on...

@@buyerbware25Frustration Engine

​@@buyerbware25Propaganda engine.

Yea I thought it was just me till I used my wife’s tablet to search for something , totally different results

youtube's search is WAY worse when it comes to producing results of what they want you to see. I'll search for an interview from a year ago and it'll show results for a couple interviews in the last couple months, then it's just nothing related to what I searched for.

@ELFanatic , they view themselves as an entertainment network rather than a repository of priceless information. It will be their undoing. Fyi, you should be able to use a custom date range. That helps a little.

@@ELFanatic Yes, thank you for pointing this problem exists heavily on UKposts. I will search for, say, a news video I know exists and it will take me pages and pages to get through the approved news outlets. I can even include the channel name or news outlet's name in the search and I will always get the approved news outlets first, whether that be CNN, NBC, ABC, etc. Recently watched a video where the pope was mentioned for less than 1 minute of a 1 hour video and there was a UKposts context added to the video about a previous pope... it's insane. And all UKposts does for these is cite an encyclopedia or Wikipedia, as if those are just facts. I can't use those sources for serious academic papers but UKposts gets no pushback for trying to influence people. Do not be fooled about their official excuse, their removal of the dislike feature wasn't so UKposts creators could feel better about their content... UKposts creators still see the dislikes on the backend. It was because during COVID you had news videos being downvoted en masse. I struggle to remember 1 news story that wasn't heavily downvoted after just a few months into COVID. They removed the dislike counter solely to hide how unified people were against the bullshit.

I have no problems with getting what i want, just learn how to use this tool, huh

Do not worry, it is always somewhere. It is only that Google is getting blind.

Try the way back machine

Sometimes, web sites simply disappear.

@@peterbonucci9661 I was searching for a blog of someone and it did not appear. What dark content did it have? "How to develop sense of humor"... Geez, Earth is doomed if people look for such a thing...

@@peterbonucci9661 Can you share specifics? I'm intrigued. Underground professor webring internet is where I want to be.

Idk if this will help you, but if you put something in parenthesis and search for say "Reef squid" it should search for places where these words appear just as in the parenthesis- with no word in between them and so on. It sometimes doesn't work perfectly nowadays, but it's the only way I can find some specific things that are made up of words that commonly appear in different context.

Wow, it's interesting to see someone who's experienced the exact same problem as I have. A while back, I wanted to find a very specific kind of deep-sea squid, and it wouldn't come up in search at all despite being a discovery at least several decades old.

The species are going deeper and deeper..

you might be able to try google scholar, or a large website with marine biology portal. if you can find articles that arent paywalled scholar is pretty good

Of course the propaganda machine is trying to make you be afraid of anything that isn't human. It's trying to tell that poor innocent sea creatures different than us are "bad" and "wrong" and "should be wiped out for not being mammals". Don't listen to it! These poor sea creatures already have it hard enough with there environment being increasingly poisoned and ruined. They don't need to be demonized by these AI jerks. I hope you can help these creatures. I should be helping these guys too if I'm being honest.

Yep, the censorship is so blatant, and mirrors how history is erased in Orwell's 1984

Spot on. So,e topics are washed away and you can’t get legitimate information. When I enter a library, I should be ab,e to find fiction and non fiction. Yes they are labeled as such but the library has both. Google will not let me find what it considers to be non fiction anymore when that is precisely what I am looking for. I am not surprised they are trying to revise history.

Your replies aren't showing up for me guys

@@Quasindro I can see 4 out of 5. I wrote that they're erasing..,.hi....story. Sorry for writing like this, but surely you understand why (since writing it fully does not show the reply...).

Gotta go back to basics and use a library I guess. Go ogle is more of a reccomendation engine these days anyways.

Google no longer shows you how many results are found in Milliseconds. Example, 123,340 results in 12 ms. Then google would only show you the first 10 pages of results. People started to question, what results is Google hiding? Now Google removed the result information at the top of the search. Hmmm. 🤔🤔🤔🤔

yes!!!

Most big websites' search engines are next to useless. It is not difficult to design a local SE. I think they want it that way.

Err... The exclusion operator "-" still works for me. Also still listed on the Google support page ("Refine Google searches/Operators").

The quotation operator for exact term search has been going through a hippie "it's whatever, man, words are just, like, social constructs" phase, tho

I swear that there used to be a Google search function that searched only scientific journal. Google Scholar, I think it was...

​@@notyou2353 It still exists.

@@notyou2353 it still exists i think

There is a reason they make 200 billion a year and it is not because they let you stop seeing shopping related results.

Reminds me of yesterday, actually. I was searching some info on samsung SSD's and their write cycles and I only got results on where to purchase them. Had to go to reddit, to get a single related answer.

Yeah, I often use Google image search to find art references, and have been recently noticing how frustrating it is that image search doesn't show me the pictures I'm after and instead will just show a bunch of catalogue images of the subject of my search for sale. That and it often just gives images that go along with news articles which happen to be related to what I'm looking for (which I guess is probably due to all the more recent articles being deliberately crafted to draw search results). I remember once trying to look up an image of a Hassidic Jew to get a picture of how they dress and getting nothing but the images for articles which covered the latest filming of the series, Shtisel. Which, yes, technically has Hassidic Jews, but isn't exactly what one who just wants a generic picture of Hassidic Jew garb is going to be looking for.

It almost replaces your search with a more popular one that uses the same keywords. I love alternative fashion too, and when I look for styles, it's hard to find anything that's not just what you would get searching for 'fashion' by itself. I've taken to just doomscrolling foreign fashion sites like worldshopping's fashion section

@@jessh4016 Yeah, basically it'll replace your search. I've noticed it's been getting really liberal with considering certain words interchangeable that really aren't in certain contexts. My absolute pet peeve in that regard is that Google seems to think that "vs" is interchangeable with "and". Trying to look up the difference between certain things is a real pain because of that (especially considering the "and" doesn't even have to be between the other 2 terms, and can be anywhere on the page to be a result).

I don't think the internet has changed that much. Quite a lot of it is due to google's declining quality. Half of what they show you are paid results.

it looks like we are seeing technological tribalism, where tech companies are competing with one another for monetary resources at the expense of the quality of service they provide. It's human history 101, a great leader rises and solves a problem and everyone loves them, gives them power and control to help make their lives so much better, and they manage to do exactly what they promised, until eventually, they start annoying people and we realize we gave all this power to someone who may end up exploiting it like every single person in the history of humanity has done. That's the rise of the tyrannical leader.

I feel like it's because people use the internet differently now. Previously everyone used a website or blog to convey information, or were talking on text based forums, all public and easier to see/search for. Today, people don't do that anymore. Any website or blog is more likely to be random text meant to convey an ad, a lot of people post things in a video, which is hard/impossible to search through, or use a closed off method like a mobile phone app. If you want old information, it's all still there (for now), but for anything new, there's no where to go if you don't already know where it is. A site like Reddit only still works because it maintains a very text-based approach (especially using old reddit com) and given what new Reddit looks like and them hosting their own images/video now, who knows how long that will last.

@@tsm688 thats exactly what he was saying..

@@tsm688 worse - they stopped indexing older stuff - so it is still there, but it is no longer searcheable for one reason or another. This change actually happened around 2012-2014 or so, I guess.

3:30

Search engines have redefined 'valuable knowledge' as 'financially valuable knowledge'.

Right? For something like that I would instinctively add ‘Wikipedia’ to the search now.

@@OutOfNamesToChoose naw man it's political, google is liberal and t hey want to keep the world liberal in spite of how bad it is for the world.

@@Joe-ug2mb You're shadow banned, and I only see your comment in my bell notification tab. Anyway, I agree, but I'd say that that's because that is what's more financially lucrative; telling people to be more free with what they do and to ignore the consequences leaves a lot more room for business to step in and sell people s#!t. E.g. Healthy at any size allows fast food companies to sell more slop for profit.

Wikipedia is biased too

He doesn’t touch on it because it’s not an issue. It’s why you use quotation marks. It searches for the exact term or terms in the quotes. Google has been that way forever,

@@HCG even with the quotation marks, it mostly brings up something completely irrelevant.

Yes, and Google substitutes what THEY think I mean. I look up "schematic diagram" and I get results for "user manual". I can never find what I'm looking for if it's a schematic.

@@theclearsounds3911 this is intentional. Device manufacturers do not want people to access schematics

@@imeakdo7 Oh, yes, that's very true. But, is Google doing this deliberately to give manufacturers what they want? Plus, other people sometimes post schematics, and getting a barrage of user manuals makes it hard to find the actual schematic.

*piqued... Oh whatever, it's "peaked" now, language gonna language

@@quantumblauthor7300 Same with 'en pointe'.

I've seen peaked in US. They tend to alter English spellings.

@@JamesTaylor-je6es that's just illiteracy

propaganda ministry of nwo

Yep, it is now a platform to only promote stuff from paying customers...

A sale engine?

Just spits out Ads at this point 😒

Sounds scary when you put it that way for some reason

So true, every time I am searching for something, instead of giving a list of videos related to my search I get 3-5 on topic, and then absolutely random sh*t related to my VIEWS HISTORY and NOT to my search. I don't know whom does it help, I wholeheartedly hate it.

@@eyjele totally this as well. This is even more frustrating you’re right

@@eyjele true @youtube need to fix this

@@KayMyName They are doing it on purpose. They dont want any of those old videos that dont follow the narrative to be seen by anyone. When I search for videos I watched in the past, it is as if they vanished. & the content that is being pushed is mindless BS completely unrelated to my search. & it is topic sensitive because some innocuous topics I get much better search results for.

You can even type an old video title word for word and it will still not appear in the search results

I've had this happen too. I even put quotation marks around the model of my device to try and help and it still pulled up unrelated models (mostly as ads) the only thing that actually worked was tacking reddit on to the end, and the reddit link led to a UKposts video showing how to fix my issue.

And once you find that one reddit post, withh the same problem posted, it just says solved, but the OP never wrote the solution lmao

What was your question I'm curious

2 weeks of searching why my iphone 12 decrease volume by itself and no relevant answer!

Google now limits the number of available pages of search results to about 5 max. What happened to the huge limitless internet? What happened to being able to search the 30th or 50th page of a search result, and finding really interesting stuff on smaller sites?

Yep "these results may not be what you're looking for" gives me the results I was _asking_ for, not what companies paid to show me or redirections to Google's indirect income sources.

Imagine: When I was in college during Google's first years, folk got degrees, even doctorates in essentially being good at searches. Wildcards, boolean logic, regular-expressions, etc. were de-facto search options for decades, then Google put everyone else out of business, and got rid of most the "advanced" search options, and those highly-sought folk with many years of skills-training and experience, were rendered useless, not because their skills aren't needed, but because the only search engine remaining decided to do-away with tools that had existed for decades, that businesses and research institutions and government relied on to such great extents as to seek folk with those skills in the first place... Now those experts, just like everyone else, are getting a full page of useless results, another page containing terms that Google deemed are the same (and are not, at all, within the context), advertisements, pop-culture, autogenerated pages, etc. What a world. What I don't understand is why folk and businesses alike aren't up-in-arms about it.

Well, now we have to use different search engines

@@destroything would love to... are there any that aren't just wrappers?

I do a bit of technical and scientific research, and google simply fails to deliver. I moved on to other engines years ago.

they now hiding that too...

Absolutely hate this, most pf my searches require 2-3 tries just to get Google to stop secong guessing me.

Sometimes I have to put every word in quotes so it doesn't skip words.

There are some special things you can do to avoid that. For instance '2022K "game"` will force the results to include things that mention "game" if you put quotation marks around it.

@@gamingbud926 even doing that doesn't work sometimes, google will outright replace the results of your search for things it thinks you should be looking up instead

That was around 1998 right ?

@@fungames1594 Pre-Google buddy. So 95'ish

It's not just about governments and corporations. It has become more easily accessible. You don't need an above average IQ to enter. Now see the results...

Governments INVENTED the web

Yes, it's well and truly fucked. Getting information is and was THE main magical thing about the internet. For years, profit maximisation along with dark design patterns has slowly taken over, and now they make information harder to get on top of that. I am not looking forward to what the internet is likely to become over the next years, and I've been thinking that chances are we'll go full circle, the only real places will become those that are hard to find/access again. Sad. Oh, and here's a new one: Google Now on Android devices now serves up sponsored content. Like, the bit that shows you news headlines that it thinks you'll find interesting. Yeah. There's ads now. I'm appalled ethical lines seem to be crossed much more easily, I'd bet it's picking up pace.

Yeah it's a minefield and everyone seems to have issues...and I've got issues.

Only if you don't use Kagi. That has, by far, the best results out of any search engine currently in existence.

Yeah. Even image search results are crap now. I remember back in the day, you could spend ages looking at all the different images it came up with. Now it just comes up with images that've been posted on social media and mainstream news websites.

Not to mention the search always panders to what's is most searched. If you search "how UKposts makes money" for example, all answers are "how to make money on UKposts" No Sherlock, that's not what I was searching, but it's what most people search with those keywords.

Censorship is to blame. You cannot find even simple name available freely on Internet

I stopped using Google 6 months after it started, until then it was the best search engine. It is a very long time ago google was the best... And now sadly all the major search engines including duckduckgo have become totally useless as all the things I am looking for has been removed, replaces by thing that has NOTHING to do with the things I search for. For now only search engine I know of that still works is yandex .

Yep!, when I was very young you could search images for lets say, jack o Lanterns. You would get 10,000 pages of pictures. YES 10,000. Now as you said, you get less. What equates to maybe 4 or 5. pages.

@@userbc44 I think specifically with image search, Google got sued by Getty images so they had to change.

Amazon tablets worse, Every search gives the same result If its not Amazon Etsy or Ebay or in America Amazon can't find it in the UK Trying to check in advance if B&Q stores have a certain product. Kills the device

And at the bottom you get that "some results were omitted from this search because they were removed for violating DMCA blablabla..." Yeah, yeah, whatever, where is my results?

This Is exactly why I use yandex to search images. Google suck bad compared to it

Let's not forget about government oversight working hand in hand with big tech to propagandize you to the gills

True it’s hard and annoying using Amazon to buy stuff or search for stuff

AND "term" still works.

Trying DuckDuckGo and Brave often yields the same results, and they don't even allow the string operators which Google does. I notice that the article doesn't mention that China is trying to take over, or at least heavily influence Reddit.

filetype: still works, as well as -example for excluding stuff, and quotes for specific words appearing in pages. I believe you can also set a date window

Site: still works. But I notice "+" and "-" seem to do very little. It's like goggle says to me "No, I know what you want"....

@@atlas4733 excluding with "-" still works... Sometimes. It's been very inconsistent for me.

Reddit is doing a better job at giving users more accurate search results and it's not even a search engine

Also put it in quotes. Also "forum" helps. It brings real queries higher up into your results instead of the purely SEO crap. But its a race to the bottom. You don't think SEO tweakers are on to these "tricks"?

Agree.

@@bjamesW32 It gets to the point where you have to be searching a specific site with google to get anything. Which isn't sustainable and limits results to what forums you know are actually useful.

Deadass

The best option to access detailed information on a very specific topic is to ask in the subreddit of that topic. The second best option, if such a subreddit does not exist, is to post slightly incorrect information about that specific topic in the subreddit of the less specific parent topic

Its very sad that we are on the point where reddit is the most reliable search "engine"; even tho it is completely biased and corrupt. But just the fact _humans_ make it is enough for it to be in the podium

I started about a year ago reddit googling

@@kotzebrecher ah yes, hanlon's razor!

I’ve been doing this for years. Glad you found it recently

This has been my most infuriating development for the past year and a half. Omfg, I wanted to pull my hair out when they changed the default way to reverse image search. I asked reddit, and they told me "tough titties" Now I just want the old website back but haven't found an alternative, and use the stupid google lens (against my will)

Didn't know if not didn't notice the "And now they turn the image you loaded into a product search, by isolating one portion of it, and looking for ways to funnel you into shopping" Maybe a coincidence or not cause I have ublock origin. I'll try to notice if I'll use it again(currently using duckduckgo )

_Why?_ To funnel you into shopping, of course!

​@@StoneWeevilagreed, they are top dog, everyone used them, now they can turn into "cash" mode, and just funnel you to whatever makes them the most money. After all, what are you going to use? Ask Jeeves? Altavista? Bing? Just be glad the engine is still "free"

Initially I think they did this as there was a problem with doxxing. Reverse image search was so good it was trivial to figure out the identity of a person from a single photo reverse search. This is why they started breaking it. After that they began to try to influence how the internet was used and what parts of it google wanted to direct traffic towards. Yes it's about money but also about control. Google isn't really a search engine anymore. It's more of an advertising portal.

Discord has its uses but for EVERYTHING? No.

@@mrscruffles801 I think discord is great for communication! But it's a terrible way to archive things

@@ic5889 Yeah. Modern internet seems to be _against_ preservation doesn't it? Or is that just me?

@@mrscruffles801 No, that's a good observation. "The internet never forgets" is just a meme and most information and content is becoming really temporary, either pulled down due to platform/DMCA/hosting issues after a week or just lost to obscurity in days due to everyone moving onto the next social media trend.

@@mrscruffles801 People today seems to be more adapted to short term engagement and information.

This is one of the big problem but also there is the other problem it just ignore some of the keywords like you type: (one two three) and it gives you a search result like: (one two -three- ) in the first hit and you know there is no way there is no (one two three) result out there because you just searching a page you know it exist you just forgot where. Nope, google want you to read what they want not what you want. But yes, the other big problem the search just ignore negative keywords.

Yeah same. I also used to be able to put words/phrases in quotation marks so it would show me results with those words in them, but it doesn’t work anymore for some reason so I don’t even try

@@skeesuschrist2162 The use of quotation marks still functions _somewhat,_ but yeah, it's weaker now. It's a major source of frustration to me! "We're Google…we know what’s best for you." I hope that someone designs a search engine that works the way "Googling" used to work circa 2012, and ultimately topples the Almighty Autocrat Google search engine from its throne.

I think due to the way they've changed their algorithms to handle semantic search, operators are essentially broken. I wonder if an old-school search engine (based on the data from Common Crawl, perhaps?) could be successful because of this.

What's jarring to me is that I can use negative (-term) and positive ("term") operators just fine right now. Either you're mistaken or the Google search we each have access to is very different. I would recommend using Google Advanced Search if you want to perform a very specific search, but there are many powerful tags that are easy to use right from the search bar.

And now that there is no longer a reply time limit on Reddit posts, it is getting better everyday!

Literally the only reason to use reddit in my opinion. But yeah it's great for that. Solving technical issues, informed purchases, reviews, etc. It's really good for that stuff. Even just asking a question/explaining your problem usually gets a response pretty quickly.

@@pagatryx5451 Was just about to comment the same thing. I don't think I've ever browsed reddit, I'm normally looking for a specific fix to an issue or a discussion about a game, movie or TV show. If you don't add reddit to the end of you'r Google search you just get copy and paste articles that personally drive me mad! Gaming journalism is awful for it, I swear 80% of articles don't have the information you're looking for it's just copy and pasted update type info with no new added content.

@@Skullcandy5282 Yup gaming journalism is my main reason for it too. It's FULL of half-assed, likely AI generated articles that often don't have the information, and if they do, it's 90% bloat or in too little depth. Every time I wanted to look up something like a quest in Elden Ring, rather than recommending me the Elden Ring wiki which provides all of the necessary information in great depth, it instead wanted to push me onto these crappy articles. So I often searched it on reddit instead because it was quicker. A lot of this comes down to SEO (Search Engine Optimization) which is basically all these 'media' pages care about. The quality of the content isn't important, it's how far up the list they appear. So that's what they're focused on doing. Google actively choosing to favor businesses and their control over SEO, instead of users and their relevant content, is the problem. Whilst it's possible for websites like the Elden Ring wiki to improve their SEO, it typically leads to businesses and professionals having an overwhelming advantage. Typing 'reddit' after a search works because Reddit has high SEO and so its results will come first.

@@Skullcandy5282 I do what you do, except I will surf around the subs of shows I'm interested in or games I play, just not random subs. So many weirdos on Reddit just want to fight you for having a slightly differing opinion and it's not worth the stress level...if you bump into the same faces when discussing a shared interest there's far less likely chances of a hostile encounter for no reason other than thumbs up or thumbs down. Which reminds me why I don't often comment on YT either xD

Damn straight brother, its no mystery. This should wake people up to the fact we are all being lied to about almost everything.

Someone telling the truth wants you to have access to all the info, only a liar will want information hidden.

😳 damn ....

Especially political stuff and businesses. Even if what we are searching for isn't even connected to that (except for a website technically being a business, obviously).

snd selling you shit you don't need so you'll spend money you don't have.

Yandex image search is a great alternative

I do lookups on specific clothing to understand price for resale. Google has become useless. They won't let me find what I want but what they want me to buy. Also Google is destroying the online reseller market by telling buyers what the item is worth a form ASF monopolistic interference in a business iften driven by women run businesses. Reddit is going public soon it has significantly changed its terms of service and user people are finding they cannot delete their posts. Reddit is on course to be destroyed in 2024.

It's not even much good for that either, these days.

​@@Krzys_Dyeah, its really accurate

Even Google assistant is crap nowadays, earlier when I said call this person , it will do call in just 1-2 seconds , now it take 10 seconds just to analyse what I said , and I'm on high speed 5g network so internet is not the issue , even UKposts and chrome are a mess now , btw can you all suggest any other virtual assistant ? Since

They were instrumental in slandering a president.

I noticed it after 9-11! I thought BIG businesses blacklisted little businesses!

@@blessed7927 no money no SEO

There are two factors at work, as primary confounders of a good search. Commercial advertisements getting priority and the incorporation of some of their AI products, the latter ignoring order of words in a phrase, even when one uses quotes like in the old days. AI doesn't mean what most think that it means. It's really Artificial Idiocy, as it's far from ready for prime time. Fortunately, there are other search engines and search engines that search multiple search engines that can help and Google Scholar still works correctly.

It's not just bullshittery, it's also fuckery

The best thing about "People also searched for this," is that the suggested searches often also return no useful results. Google sits back and laughs as their search becomes more and more useless.

exactly it just leads you to a dead end

I’ll search terms and it will either be the worst quality unrelated videos, or 10 videos I already watched. What??

To me, it really feels like these little "People also searched for..." things are algorithm generated. I've gotten them suggesting searches that people _probably_ wouldn't google, with nonsense grammar and random "relevant" key words. I hate them with a burning passion. For so much data spying shit going you'd think it would actually be something I'd wanna see (on UKposts), but I don't want to watch these videos just because other people have, too.

One thing I have to say about UKposts (Maybe this is because of Google), is that my first 2 UKposts accounts, once they were really starting to take off, I got the 3 strikes pretty dang fast and my account/everything was axed... Now, with my 3rd UKposts account I can barely get any views at all, and trust me, there are quite a few others that are having this exact same issue!!

You're half-right. They intentionally shut off the search feature, and they intentionally want people to 'gradually' get used to the new system, which is a system based on nonsense recommendations. Eric Schmidt said 'the internet will simply disappear'. He wasn't joking when he said that. And in the future they're going to try to switch to some AI crap that will be completely useless anyway

Google trying to troll its users would be more fun than the sad reality. :) Cause some years ago google started to censor and blacklist all sites. And later they went totaly crazy and only started to show whitelisted sites. During this time you only saw pinterest or reddit as a result (both heavily moderated). Reddit didn't got big because it was good. It got only big because it was one of the rare whitelisted sites by google. Every other forum and co got fully censored, shadowbanned and removed from google results cause of political reasons and googles shareholders (BlckRck/Vngard)

That's monopoly 4 ya

Google & UKposts are the modern day New World Order Nazi censorship & propaganda platforms

@@hgyuuuuhj098 Yeah, maybe people shouldn't have been memeing on Bing and other non-google search engines.

It is almost impossible to write constructive comments - you write a "wrong" word and immediately, their "artificial intelligence", together with "neural networks", delete the entire comment. Although you didn't have any bad intentions.

Yep but hopefully we can expect them to tone down on INCREASING the amount of ads now. And if not, well, people will simply go elsewhere as the video explains. Obviously it's not just the ads making browsing the internet a chore, all the popups and requests from the websites are also really annoying. Companies no longer care about their websites being USABLE, they just care about their stupid cookies and notifications and whatnot being enabled on our browsers, which in my opinion is really stupid because ultimately it draws away people from these websites. The amount of times I backed out of a website because of popups is crazy. I just hope that in the future we get extensions disabling these things, or I hope that companies start to understand how important good website design is. As an aspiring website designer myself, it pains me to see some of the atrocities being committed on the internet.

​@@TechSupportDave I remember when the net started, cookies pop ups we're everywhere. Then they stopped. I was pretty young, but I remember something mentioned in computers class that cookies had been made illegal because of the tracking capabilities Now, they're everywhere again!

@@TechSupportDave To be fair, I don't know if it was better to have the exact same amount of cookies with 0 popups because they weren't legally required to ask first

@@TechSupportDave i never got adds on youtube. The sponsorship advertisement inside the video is the most annoying for me.

and counted as a "skill" in requiments in some company

Yes! I was trying to use that to find the less commercial pages by patiently clicking through to page 15 of results, but after a few pages there were “no more” which was impossible for the topic.

@@veightsuper4053 And yet up until the last page it says you are on "144 of 15600000000 results" The next page, it says "Looks like you've reached the end". BUT. At work my Google is set to Singapore, while at home my search is set to NZ. The results are equally limited but a completely different mix. Thats because the results are limited according to algorithm, and the algorithm is subject to human input, which is "tweaking" by Google's engineers to censor or promote certain articles or sites according to both business interests and local politics. It appears in some cases to override SEO efforts by site administrators (of which I am one). Since 2016 (Trump's presidential win) and 2017 (Ardern's "Christchurch Call" censorship initiative) the amount of algorithm-tweaking has increased massively. This is another factor in why Google is dying. Social engineering and politics determining what you are allowed to see and what they prefer you to see first.

It's censorship. They started doing that right after Trump was elected. They basically broke their own algorithm trying to censor political results that didn't go their way.

That is because Google is censoring results. I like to treat myself with natural products. Everytime I search something, the first results are always of doctors debunking what I am searching... which I am searching after reading many scientific papers showing the thing I am searching does work.

@@Willowy13 Check my last response Willowy. you are more or less correct but I explain in greater detail.

I, for whatever reason, have a nearly photographic memory of an incident around 2015 where I was venting to my brother about how 'shitty and corporate' google and UKposts searches where. It was a very specific lecture about ancient African pottery and structures that randomly appeared for me in my recomendations someday, and I haven't been able to find it since. All the results I got were shitty SEO farming corporate crap and it made me so mad then, and it makes me so mad again. Algorithms have ruined the joy of discovery. Now I constantly find myself just searching the same stuff over and over, not expanding into something new unless a friend recommends it to me first.

You are so right.

@@amelialonelyfart8848 Also correct, Amelia.

@@amelialonelyfart8848 Same, I feel like all the new stuff I learned/discovered was back in the early 2010's, now finding anything outside of the familiar is an absolute chore. The internet has become increasingly insufferable.

Google isn't the ineternet

I've actually more recently defaulted to using Wikipedia as a search engine when dealing with this. I miss when I could find Wikipedia articles merely by using google

What's even worse is that wikipedia itself has been getting a lot worse for some time now. A lot of it seems to be people injecting their own opinions into what's supposed to be factual information and deleting parts they don't like.

Wikipedia is inaccurate!😂it's NOT facts..just random people's opinion..it's more like a forum..it's NOT quality content at all

@@Swansong321 😐

Good part of Wikipedia to is it links its sources so you can just use the sources for your info

Interesting!

yeah, they'll intentionally bury the information you're looking for under a ton of pages or they might not even show it at all. I usually use othere search engines if the topic is China, Russia, political, geopolitical or anything that goes against the establishment narrative.

I've been using this trick for a long time but I got surprised at how so many people are doing this too now, Google got very shitty at showing good results. And I'd like to add it got worse since AI got better. Google results feel even worse since then.

I literally just started doing this and then I see this video and the comments basically confirming this is the new meta lmao

What is SEO?

ugh yes!! google image searching is almost useless to me now. I used to be able to deep dive and find a specific object by just clicking through layers of google images. Today, I type in something simple or even currently trending and instead of quickly grabbing a photo I end up sifting through pinterest for an hour trying to find a better image- that should've taken me a minute.

Yeah, the result-capping is rubbish, I remember when it first started on UKposts search and was puzzled as to why I was suddenly being shown a small handful of videos when it seemed very likely that's not all there was.

Exactly. Google now limits the number of available pages of search results to about 5 max. What happened to the huge limitless internet? What happened to being able to search the 30th or 50th page of a search result, and finding really interesting stuff on smaller sites?

for me, I can't find more than 1 page of results, it says u reached the end. Back in the days I would go up to page 99 at pictures

Not only that, but some browsers prevent you from even downloading images off google now.

Happens to me too. Many times I have to *explicitly* add "wikipedia" to the search so the article shows up. Other times the article just doesn't exist, but that's a lot rarer.

I could understand not including Wikipedia if it was less good than what they gave you, but no they just give you a SEO article ahaha.

Good, Wikipedia is terrible, especially for political topics

@@HappyGick You can also just go to Wikipedia and search for what you're looking for there.

@@soniablanche5672 Who is googling mostly political topics other than people working in the field? Wikipedia is the best available source for most kinds of information in English.

Can you give me an example of why you think Google ignores quotation marks or other advanced research tools used to give useful results in the past ?

@@tokyyoutube1287 When instead of showing no results for your query it returns "did you mean ..." with utterly useless crap.

Yes I have the same problem. It wants to hamfist you into the most popular things, even if you are pretty specific in what you're searching for.

Are you joking? Or do you literally not understand that it doesn't work?@@tokyyoutube1287 a lot of people say this. "Mine isn't like that" etc. it only affects people with higher IQ, or people that actually rely on Google or the internet for something. Most of you can't really use the internet, which is why this isn't a trending topic worldwide. They literally shut off Google and almost nobody even noticed. And no 'youtubers' or any kind of experts are talking about it at all

yeah, that's what I hate most, the removal of exact phrases and AND and OR searches, back then you were able to combine those.

Also doing -this to get rid of that search term, which also just ends with no results *Anger.*

That’s exactly what I do as well! Google has fallen so far. Is there a better search engine?

The last one is so true! If I have a question about, idk, some info of an anime, it doesn't matter how many times I put "is X Z's father", "are X and Z related?", "X wiki", it probably won't show what I want (not even reddit pages that talks exactly about what I wrote) until I put "Reddit" on the final Edit: and what really pisses me off sometimes is that Google often don't put pages on the language I'm searching. If I want an specific information about something, I'll probably search in english for a better result. But even if I'm typing in english, the first few pages will appear in my native language - not what I was asking for

That doesn't even scratch the service. When I was researching Kratom in 2015 to see if I wanted to take it, I found many websites with decades of research by real scientists and user reports detailing how well it worked for them and the potential downsides, I weighed that with the risk of taking Ritalin for my ADHD and realized that amphetamines are much much more dangerous. Fast forward September of 2016 when Scott Gottlieb was the FDA Director, he waged an all out war on Kratom and tried to ban it multiple times. The search results on Google no longer showed the websites I had used to make my decision and instead were replaced by fear mongering sites and WebMD, MayoClinic talking negatively about it, saying people had died from it, which is false btw, nobody has ever died from solely ingesting Kratom. It's a very scary world when all the worlds information is stored on a private database where our constitutional rights are no longer applied, there's no 1st amendment on the internet, it's all private.

@@HiGlowie AI like ChatGPT does a better job for a lot of areas. I don't google tech solutions anymore.

Yea remember how hatreon was shut down

Indeed, And Reddit while being a good search alternative to Goolge, Reddit is basically a fascist breeding ground as you could get banned for anything!

Neocities? Anyone?

My web site is in html, its links on a static page. my own server too

And THAT is why google sucks now. Not for the reasons this youtuber states.

Please register to read my reply on this.

Sounds like a win for the government

i dont know how it isn’t labeled as censorship. it’s insane

@@itsrxbin how can giving the results page to the people that pay the most possibly, conceivably, by any reasonable person, ever be considered “censorship”? There’s terms that are being used these days, like censorship and fake news by people who ….are just totally brainwashed

History will show that civilization peaked roughly 2019... then a pandemic came along and we all became stupid toxic masculinity eventually destroyed all life on the planet.

Wait til AI gets hold of this. Nothing is going to exist for HUMANS. And AI is going to go on its merry way !

8 billion.

IF there even is a page 5. More often than not there just isn't.

@@Termiic then you have to find more technical terms for the subject you are interested in, and try several of them.

@@weldonyoung1013 strange, since in the past by using the same keywords there would have been much, much more matching results, certainly not ending at page 5, maybe only less relevant, while now everything technical seems to end in aliexpress, except if i search within a specific company website, that tends to have results. Sometimes.

Sad….😢

They have become the very thing they swore to destroy

But maybe Google's definition of 'Evil' is to crush resistance and force surrender. Is it evil to exploit the willingly exploited?

"Don't be evil" was changed in October of 2015, following Google's corporate restructuring, and given diminishing lip service thereafter.

Probably having something to do with responding to ai image competitors

Just today I tried reverse searching a simple logo of a website to get its name. Completely useless, only shows similar 2d vector stuff that is not related in any way.

This. I think it tries too hard to "understand" what the image is about, and it gives all kind of "similar" crap, but most of the times, I just want to find the original source of the exact image. And now I almost couldn't do it anymore. It used to be so easy to do. It gets even worse if the image contains some text or some pop references. Google will give crap related to those instead of just giving me the damn original source of the image. :(

doesnt even let me reverse image search anymore. just takes me to lens. its annoying

Its started showing more products you can buy instead of relevant results

Years ago I listened to a song called Gravity by Ucranian singer Zlata Ognevich. I forgot her name and I was looking her song under Ukranian music with all possible keywords, and I could not find her. UKposts delivered mainstream news on Ukraine and videos on how bad Russia is. I had to search sequencially my list of subscriptions until I found her channel. Lame search engine.

Worse, when you search for something, you now get stuff that is usually in your recommended even if it's not related to your search at all. That's just atrocious.

@@elu9780 fucking hate that. Also, try searching for something in incognito one time instead of logged in, and you'll see that even the not "for you" results are _heavily_ tailored. The annoying thing is that I'm searching because I am looking for something specific, probably something that I'm not already getting in my feed! That's why I'm searching!! You have to scroll through 50 results to get 5-10 that are even vaguely what you're searching for. Infuriating

And instead of admitting that it's out of results, UKposts's search page will eventually start repeating videos from earlier in the list.

Google and UKposts are the same... For example Project Veritas video about Pfizer was blocked out from both at the same time few days ago.

Yeah. There's just too much SEO and AI junk out there that adding Reddit to the end of my search is the only way to get close to the results I would get in the past.

They always have these clearly fake profiles with super generic names, using stock photos, and their social accounts, if linked, are blank.

@@justinblackwood4241 AI is eating everything and replacing it with a weird worse version, that is why I will not even look at a site that uses AI generated imagery.

It's not really an AI - it's the underpaid students making shitty SEO optimized website pages to drive up visits to their site and their position in the search engines for the client who doesn't wanna pay for ads and who thinks hes smarter than everyone else. The 2010-2020's were so swamped with this actual useless garbage information they might as well have made the search engines inoperable. Sure, these Google and all say that they are fighting this, but really, they are doing jack shit. It's still garbage and it gets worse every year because MORE AND MORE useless sites (and now with AI hoo boy) swamp the internet. I know that cause I was one of these underpaid students doing this work. I did one project like that for construction firm, felt that my IQ decreased by 10 points, and decided to seek anything to not do this kinda job again. Mind numbing can't begin to describe it.

SEO articles made it significantly worse