Originally Posted by strickerj

Obviously no one of us could “do it better” overnight, but I (and I’m sure many others) do find it frustrating that Google’s results have gotten worse, not better. I frequently get highly ranked results that have none of the terms I searched for, even when I’ve searched in quotes or with the + operator. Boolean operators are no longer recognized at all. And as we’ve seen in this thread, you can’t reproduce any of these issues thanks to Google’s personalized results, so there’s no way to know if we’re encountering bugs or it’s working as designed.

I use DuckDuckGo to avoid ad tracking, but they make no secret that their results are from Google. There really isn’t a viable alternative now.