Comment by broknbottle
4 years ago
I was just thinking about this earlier today when I was searching for something specific and getting very irrelevant results. It used to be that the first page of results was very high quality and somewhat relevant at the bottom and page two+ was pretty much don’t even bother. Now it’s like if you are lucky the first 3-4 results might be relevant, middle is some spam with similar keywords that appear to match your search but it’ll have a funky domain e.g. .gg and either nonsense or doesn’t work due to malicious crap and being blocked. Anything after the middle is pretty much garbage.
and page two+ was pretty much don’t even bother
On the other hand, I used to trawl through all of the pages Google would let me go through, and regularly found what I was looking for back there, mixed in with the usual SEO spam. Now the first page is awful, and the rest of the pages are entirely SEO spam.