bonadripper:
You don't know anything

Go and build your own google that can think

HenryDion:
What you're encountering is not the fault of Google, rather Nairaland. If Google is unable to properly index NL contents, it means there's a robots.txt tag preventing Googlebot from properly crawling and indexing NL.

If anything, Google has advanced incredibly over the years, using Natural Generative Language to properly understand queries, not to talk of Deep Mind.

musicwriter:


Ok. But I believe Google changed their algorithm about two years ago, which has brought about some unintended consequences in search results. It's not as if Google hasn't improved per SE but they may have sacrificed certain things in order to achieve certain new results. That's what I believe happened.

Odoogu:
Don't know if it's related, but definitely has google in it. Read sometimes ago where people talked about the failure of google map to update locations of known persons. Some are even dead but google map still shows them alive in their last location. Maybe it's some glith that will repair itself, don't know. Them Tech pro people on the forum could help.

musicwriter:


What I believe is that they changed the way the search engine works. But the one there before was better as far as I am concerned.

Odoogu:


Okay. Can there be recurrence of this anytime in the future?

musicwriter:
Has anybody noticed that Google no longer deliver in depth search results? What I mean is that their machine can no longer think deeply. I noticed this over the past 2 years and I don't know whether someone out there has observed it too.

In the past, there's a way I used to fetch my old posts here on Nairaland. Example; there's a post here where I quoted a Malcolm X statement. I remember clearly that in that post there's a mention of "interest of black people" and the word "accolades". This I know for sure. So, if I wanted to repost the comment, I need not scroll my previous posts because it would take much time to find that comment, instead all I did was go to Google.com and enter "accolades, not serve the interest of black people, Malcolm X, nairaland.com" or I may enter "does not serve the interest of black people, Malcolm X, nairaland.com/musicwriter"

Three years ago, that's all I needed to search and I'll find the exact post on Google.com and repost it. But it's no longer working. If you search that today, you'll see exact mention of Malcolm and maybe his quotes but not the comment I am looking for. Yet, the comment is right here on the world wide web. I just want to know whether someone has noticed that.

The Google machine used to think before but it's more mechanical nowadays. It's just a robot now. It can no longer "think" outside of the search phrase.

tempest01:


I had this same observation. I think what is happening is that Google no longer crawls through the web and are doing what they call indexing, in my opinion as a search console owner.

Probably due to lots of information online and they want to increase search speed. They find keywords associated with the site and keep a snapshot every time content is updated with the keyword. That's what they search through rather than the whole web.

1Sharon:
You can switch to other search engines like duck duck goo and bing.

They even give different results. Google has become too mainstream.

musicwriter:
Has anybody noticed that Google no longer deliver in depth search results? What I mean is that their machine can no longer think deeply. I noticed this over the past 2 years and I don't know whether someone out there has observed it too.

In the past, there's a way I used to fetch my old posts here on Nairaland. Example; there's a post here where I quoted a Malcolm X statement. I remember clearly that in that post there's a mention of "interest of black people" and the word "accolades". This I know for sure. So, if I wanted to repost the comment, I need not scroll my previous posts because it would take much time to find that comment, instead all I did was go to Google.com and enter "accolades, not serve the interest of black people, Malcolm X, nairaland.com" or I may enter "does not serve the interest of black people, Malcolm X, nairaland.com/musicwriter"

Three years ago, that's all I needed to search and I'll find the exact post on Google.com and repost it. But it's no longer working. If you search that today, you'll see exact mention of Malcolm and maybe his quotes but not the comment I am looking for. Yet, the comment is right here on the world wide web. I just want to know whether someone has noticed that.

The Google machine used to think before but it's more mechanical nowadays. It's just a robot now. It can no longer "think" outside of the search phrase.

1Sharon:
You can switch to other search engines like duck duck goo and bing.

They even give different results. Google has become too mainstream.

Adewale1603:
what i noticed about Google in the past years, is that, some web content had been removed, some searches that used to be there before, i can no longer access them.

musicwriter:
Has anybody noticed that Google no longer deliver in depth search results? What I mean is that their machine can no longer think deeply. I noticed this over the past 2 years and I don't know whether someone out there has observed it too.

In the past, there's a way I used to fetch my old posts here on Nairaland. Example; there's a post here where I quoted a Malcolm X statement. I remember clearly that in that post there's a mention of "interest of black people" and the word "accolades". This I know for sure. So, if I wanted to repost the comment, I need not scroll my previous posts because it would take much time to find that comment, instead all I did was go to Google.com and enter "accolades, not serve the interest of black people, Malcolm X, nairaland.com" or I may enter "does not serve the interest of black people, Malcolm X, nairaland.com/musicwriter"

Three years ago, that's all I needed to search and I'll find the exact post on Google.com and repost it. But it's no longer working. If you search that today, you'll see exact mention of Malcolm and maybe his quotes but not the comment I am looking for. Yet, the comment is right here on the world wide web. I just want to know whether someone has noticed that.

The Google machine used to think before but it's more mechanical nowadays. It's just a robot now. It can no longer "think" outside of the search phrase.

1Sharon:
You can switch to other search engines like duck duck goo and bing.

They even give different results. Google has become too mainstream.

musicwriter:
Has anybody noticed that Google no longer deliver in depth search results? What I mean is that their machine can no longer think deeply. I noticed this over the past 2 years and I don't know whether someone out there has observed it too.

In the past, there's a way I used to fetch my old posts here on Nairaland. Example; there's a post here where I quoted a Malcolm X statement. I remember clearly that in that post there's a mention of "interest of black people" and the word "accolades". This I know for sure. So, if I wanted to repost the comment, I need not scroll my previous posts because it would take much time to find that comment, instead all I did was go to Google.com and enter "accolades, not serve the interest of black people, Malcolm X, nairaland.com" or I may enter "does not serve the interest of black people, Malcolm X, nairaland.com/musicwriter"

Three years ago, that's all I needed to search and I'll find the exact post on Google.com and repost it. But it's no longer working. If you search that today, you'll see exact mention of Malcolm and maybe his quotes but not the comment I am looking for. Yet, the comment is right here on the world wide web. I just want to know whether someone has noticed that.

The Google machine used to think before but it's more mechanical nowadays. It's just a robot now. It can no longer "think" outside of the search phrase.

Ihatebuhariwith:
yeah I don’t use google

musicwriter:


Ok. But I believe Google changed their algorithm about two years ago, which has brought about some unintended consequences in search results. It's not as if Google hasn't improved per se but they may have sacrificed certain things in order to achieve certain new results. That's what I believe happened.