> Does anyone have any actual statistics or quantitative data on the quality of Google search results?
It is pretty quantitative yes, but it happened at different times for different people.
But it used to be that when you searched for something you got pages containing the thing you searched for, and if you couldn't find it at first then you could do a search on the page and find out some enterprising scammer had included your keywords in white text on white background.
Today Google and Bing has teamed up with the scammers so they don't need to use such hacks anymore. Google and Bing will include the results even if they don't contain said keywords at all.
Uncharitable? Yes. Do I hope Google and Bing engineers read this and fix it or do I hope some Russian enterprise launch a better engine?
I actually hope Google find back to its roots! I don't hate you guys but you really don't make it easy for us in between using all the oxygen in the room and annoying me all the time with useless time wasting results.
It is pretty quantitative yes, but it happened at different times for different people.
But it used to be that when you searched for something you got pages containing the thing you searched for, and if you couldn't find it at first then you could do a search on the page and find out some enterprising scammer had included your keywords in white text on white background.
Today Google and Bing has teamed up with the scammers so they don't need to use such hacks anymore. Google and Bing will include the results even if they don't contain said keywords at all.
Uncharitable? Yes. Do I hope Google and Bing engineers read this and fix it or do I hope some Russian enterprise launch a better engine?
I actually hope Google find back to its roots! I don't hate you guys but you really don't make it easy for us in between using all the oxygen in the room and annoying me all the time with useless time wasting results.