What search engine are you using?
I’ve noticed it too. Very biased results.
The “best” search engine I’ve found is Kagi (kagi.com). They give you 100 free searches, then you have to pay. $60 a year for 300 searches a month. Pricey, I know. Nevertheless, on the flip side, they give pretty straight-forward, relatively unbiased results, especially for conservative topics. Worth looking into.
In 2nd place is Brave (search.brave.com).
Welcome to the internet.
Yandex. The Russian search engine. Compare one liar against another.
Yes, it’s changed.
Google was amazing when it first started.
Hundreds of pages of results.
A lot of dross, but nuggets of gold found pages down in the results.
Now it is all manipulated, or curated, or censored, whatever one wants to call it.
The Internet is BROKEN as a repository of human knowledge.
Try Luxxle search engine... It does deep searches and you can narrow searches with the built in tools. It doesn’t track or keep your info either.
Free Republic itself is also a tool. The issue is that it needs someone to generate a key search word for the post. I try to think of something that I will remember when I’ve posted something I want to refer to later on on. For example there is a great political ad with the Devil went to Georgia as the background music so I added DevilGeorgia as a keyword to find that video in a Free Republic search.
Bing
Yahoo
Duck Duck Go
Now do the same search on Yandex. Prepare to be amazed.
You are just imagining things.
Yes, the algorithm now favors the most popular and PC searches, as if insisting that is what you should want and read, and overall favors brevity (today's smartphones, attention span) over substantiation.
Google no longer indexes my site, save for a few, despite trying new sitemaps, robt text, and improving mobile friendly and passing texts, though it is not designed for that.
Compilation of report from https://search.google.com/search-console?resource_id=sc-domain%3Apeacebyjesus.net&hl=en
Welcome to Orwell’s 1984 😢
This search engine partiality isn’t entirely ideological, it’s also financial. With the commercial search engines you have to pay to be first.
G**gle is da Debil and I won’t touch it.
DuckGuckGo’s results have gotten a lot less relevant over time and shows clear evidence of manipulating the results.
At the moment I’m using searX derivatives. searX is a “meta-search” engine that uses 82 different search engines, including Bing, G**gle, Reddit, Wikipedia, Yahoo, and Yandex, but it strips off your identifying information so there’s nothing that can identify you for the nosy searches to log. You can’t get the same “personalized” responses as you might get from G**gle (et Al) but neither are you allowing them to pry into your personal life and interests.
I’ve tested them head-to-head and found searX consistently turns up “better” results to my needs than DDG.
Right now Whatfinger Search (a searX “client”) is my default. I’ve used the “Add custom search engine” add-on for Firefox to make Whatfinger a 1-click search so I can use it from FF’s ‘Search’ window.
https://whatfingersearch.whatfinger.com/searx/search
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-custom-search-engine/
I have posted before on this Tip and Trick.
Do a standard search and note the common keywords (usually two or three words is good enough) in the headlines or first sentence of the top ten mass media articles.
Then redo the search with minus in front of those three keywords.
Btw I have noticed an improvement recently.
“Illegal immigration” used to get a bunch of “migrant” mass media stories—but now the search seems to not try to force “migrant” down my throat.
You must be new around here.....
Oh no kidding. Say 20 years ago the most accurate results for a search would be on the first page, probably in the top three items.
Today it’s utter BS. Even looking for an exact specific item it may not show up at all. Seeming advertising or paid links have a priority.
And looking for something to buy at Amazon or Ebay is a real challenge. Many items are poorly described or erroneously described. That’s why I like walking into a store where I can see the product, touch it, hold it, inspect it to see if it’s what I want.
