Google already knows its search sucks (and is working to fix it) | VentureBeat
Peter Yared says “It’s a popular notion these days Google has lost its “mojo” due to failed products like Google Wave, Google Buzz, and Google TV. But Google’s core business — Web search — has come under fire recently for being the ultimate in failed tech products. He ”first blogged about Google’s increasingly terrible search results in October 2007. If you search for any topic that is monetizable…
Search has been increasingly gamed by link and content farms year by year, and users have been frogs slowly getting boiled in water without realizing it. (Bing has similarly bad results, a testament to Microsoft’s quest to copy everything Google.)
Yared notes “but here’s what these late-blooming critics miss: Yes, Google’s search results do indeed suck. But Google’s fixing it.”
Also read Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search by Marco Arment, founder of Instapaper and former lead developer of Tumblr.
