sapphyra

anarchist transbian robot girl

  • she/they

Hi! Just a cute trans girl on the internet. I have a plethora of random little hobbies and creative media I like to make stuff in, which I may or may not post when I have time. :3
This girl dreams of being a gamedev someday.
A little bit of a creature.

Going to miss Cohost so much when it's gone. :( Let's carry Eggbug in our hearts...


Discord
@missingfragment

fizbin
@fizbin

Here are three identical searches on Google, DuckDuckGo, and Bing:

searching "MAKEFILE_LIST" site:www.gnu.org/software/make on google

searching "MAKEFILE_LIST" site:www.gnu.org/software/make on duckduckgo

searching "MAKEFILE_LIST" site:www.gnu.org/software/make on bing

Note how DuckDuckGo and even Bing find the correct answer, whereas Google responds with "what? IDK, nothing to see here".

It's been known that Google search has been "getting worse and worse" in general as the result of slowly losing the war against SEO spam, but this isn't even that. This is Google just flat-out shutting off useful functionality because $REASONS, I guess.

If I still had solid social-media ties with people working at Google I'd ask them to query WTF internally, but the vast majority of those ties were severed when Google+ shut down and most of the rest are to people who were working there when I worked there a decade ago but don't work there any more.


You must log in to comment.

in reply to @fizbin's post:

If there's any consistency here, it's that the pages with MAKEFILE_LIST on them aren't indexed as being underneath www.gnu.org/software/make but are indexed as being underneath www.gnu.org. I think google behaves the same for both inurl: and site:.

Compare also searching for "lastword" inurl:www.gnu.org/software/make versus searching for "variables" inurl:www.gnu.org/software/make versus "lastword" inurl:www.gnu.org