HACKER Q&A
📣 dingosity

Is Google Search borked for you too?


So... I just did a google search for "evince DMZ-Black" (I'm finally getting around to trying to convince evince on gnome to pick up gnome theme settings for window decorations). But the responses I'm getting back are:

* a list of four YouTube videos about video games

* the same four videos in a different order

* a horizontal list of what look like screenshot images from the four video game images

And at the bottom of the page, two hits that look like they may have something to do with GTK themes on leenucks.

Is it supposed to do this?

  👤 dingosity Accepted Answer ✓
Ten minutes later I did the same search and one of the two relevant links from the bottom of the page moved up the page a bit.

Is there a way to tell google I'm not interested in searching YouTube videos about video games (or really any Video or Image searches at all?)

Guess it's back to Gopher and Veronica for me...

(more seriously... Bing isn't the best thing I've ever used, but damn if Google is just getting BAD. I used to be able to search for compiler errors and get relevant hits, now I get videos about juicing when I search for rust compiler warnings and errors. I wasn't ever in the "I have to use DuckDuckGo to protect my privacy" camp, but their results are MUCH better than Google's, so... I guess it's DDG and Bing for me.)

👤 lordswork
It looks like DMZ-Black is a popular video game, so Google is giving you info about the game. Try "evince DMZ-Black -youtube" for better results.

Interestingly, this post is now the top search result when I tried to search "evince DMZ-Black".

👤 jollyllama
Yeah, the results are all becoming lowest common denominator garbage.