Mark W Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 In the interests of following Tomturd's views on more topics up in hurrrr, rather than asking elsewhere I'll make a topic like a big boy. Recently, I've found that Google has sucked all the dick when it comes to trying to do searches. It seems like most of the words I type have very little effect, and it'll just pick one or two key words then find the most currently-popular shit to do with it. For example earlier on today I was trying to find out something to do with lawn mowers and the police (long story), and all it kept coming up with was links to a news story about some guy who shot a lawn mower filled with explosives and blew his own leg off. I just tried searching for something else, and it gave nothing like what I was looking for, and in the related searches thing it was suggesting "three flavours cornetto trilogy" - bearing in mind I was looking for police mug shots, that seems a little wide of the mark. Is this something anyone else has found recently or is this just some clusterf**k update that Google have decided to implement, much like the abortion of an update FB have just rolled out? Oh, and iTunes too for that matter - refused to recognise any device I plugged into it until I updated, and now they've got rid of the "recently updated" list from my podcasts list which is the only reason I use the f**king thing in the first place. Also, I am aware that these are free services and if I don't like them I don't have to use them and blah blah blah. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 Are you getting the results you'd like using the same searches within Bing, DuckDuckGo, or any of the other search engines? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 I just tried Bing - which, incidentally, is f**king weird - and got completely different results that were more in line with what I would expect. DuckDuckGo was pretty similar to Bing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD™ Posted July 8, 2016 Report Share Posted July 8, 2016 Then I would suggest using Bing or DuckDuckGo. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted July 9, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2016 Valid point... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted July 10, 2016 Report Share Posted July 10, 2016 On 09/07/2016 at 0:46 AM, JD™ said: Then I would suggest using Bing Said no-one, ever. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted July 11, 2016 Report Share Posted July 11, 2016 All fine here. What kind of weird porn is it your searching for? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyT Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 Just wait 10 years People always talk about how crazy the Internet (or lack thereof) is in China... Extreme censorship. Just as much censorship happens in the uk and the rest of Europe, America and Canadia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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