Operator use definitely can help a good bit, but the onslaught of keyword farming slop sites is really bad these days and as far as I can tell the search engines have just given up on that front, maybe intentionally. slop sites can have a plausible sounding exact match for almost every conceivable phrasing of your query so they’re hard to filter out
I don’t want to be a jerk I just hate the “its inevitable I just had to start using AI” take. Most people hate this stuff, it isn’t inevitable! Its like a worse version of “nobody else is masking so I had to stop too” and it can easily be extended to justify doing pretty much anything
Yeah, absolutely. AI is just awful and it’s made google really bad over the last 2 years or so, but up until that point I experienced basically no degeneration of search quality.
Now they’re culling operators from searches, automatically rewording your searches, ugh.
Operator use definitely can help a good bit, but the onslaught of keyword farming slop sites is really bad these days and as far as I can tell the search engines have just given up on that front, maybe intentionally. slop sites can have a plausible sounding exact match for almost every conceivable phrasing of your query so they’re hard to filter out
I don’t want to be a jerk I just hate the “its inevitable I just had to start using AI” take. Most people hate this stuff, it isn’t inevitable! Its like a worse version of “nobody else is masking so I had to stop too” and it can easily be extended to justify doing pretty much anything
Yeah, absolutely. AI is just awful and it’s made google really bad over the last 2 years or so, but up until that point I experienced basically no degeneration of search quality.
Now they’re culling operators from searches, automatically rewording your searches, ugh.