Anecdotally, I find that web search has been doing a much worse job of recognizing my query and presenting an SO result - which is why I personally use it less. Blogspam created from scraping SO has been completely pwning top results in Google and DDG(bing) and it’s really disheartening.
See for example “geeksforgeeks” and similar sites, which I find to be a poor and overly verbose resource, which now dominates the top position
> See for example “geeksforgeeks” and similar sites, which I find to be a poor and overly verbose resource, which now dominates the top position
Google Search's and Facebook Messenger's spam filters started letting tons of garbage through at roughly the same time. I wonder if the advances in generative deep learning helped with that.
This is so depressingly true. It's why most of my Google queries are affixed with `site:stackoverflow.com` or `site:reddit.com`. I lean on this so heavily that I've setup a couple Firefox keyword bookmarks so I can type `so <query>` or `r <query>` respectively into my address bar as a shortcut.
Doing this has vastly improved troubleshooting, finding recipes or product recommendations, etc. It slices through SEO blogspam. I get genuine results, fast.
See for example “geeksforgeeks” and similar sites, which I find to be a poor and overly verbose resource, which now dominates the top position