Has Google killed the site: search operator?
Google seems to ignore (for example) site:ycombinator.com since today. Is that a common experience or just me?
My search quality went down hill over years and now I just pay for Kagi. It’s honestly a breath of fresh air.
My experience is that Google search is best effort with a priority on latency. Lots of changes in quality, but never a significant delay in getting something back (internet infrastructure issues aside).
So sometimes site: gets dropped on the floor for me and sometimes "no I really want this" does.
These days everything in Google search is sharded, cached, and partitioned (remember when a page full of results in another language was not uncommon?).
Good luck.
Another data point for the operator being ignored. Probably an unfortunate participant of an A/B experiment. But my search quality is close to the point of searching for alternatives.
Works for me using that exact same search param site:ycombinator.com
It works for me at the first sight (I'm in central Europe).
I noticed it yesterday when I used it in conjunction with other terms, but when I removed the other terms it worked okay.
I wonder if the Verbatim option would help here.
It happened to me but only on mobile. And then it was restored.
I think they are A/B testing.
yeah, I use site: every day and this is the first day it is not working for me.
Seems to work just fine for me