<story><title>For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads</title><url>https://twitter.com/spakhm/status/1489480845979095040</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shiftpgdn</author><text>Same with Sheldon Brown’s website on bicycle maintenance.  Much of the information on his site is still the best resource on the internet but instead Google would rather serve irrelevant results that show ads.</text></item><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m still bitter that they&amp;#x27;ve deprioritized results from SongMeanings.net in favor of garbage like Genius. The former is one of the only sources for lyrics from smaller acts, especially from the 90&amp;#x27;s to early 2010&amp;#x27;s. Since it&amp;#x27;s from the pre-Web 2.0 era, it&amp;#x27;s disappeared from Google&amp;#x27;s search results.</text></item><item><author>tomatofrank</author><text>Last night I watched a YouTube video that had a song in the background that I hadn&amp;#x27;t heard but really liked. I pulled up Shazam but it didn&amp;#x27;t recognize the song, so I took to Google. I entered the lyric and added the search terms &amp;quot;lyrics&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;r&amp;amp;b&amp;quot; at the end. Google returned 4 YouTube videos to songs that didn&amp;#x27;t contain the lyric, a link to a Boyz II Men song on Genius that didn&amp;#x27;t contain the lyric (good job Google, you know an R&amp;amp;B band), a link to peterbe.com to find a song by lyrics, and a bunch of other useless links. I clicked on to page 2, which hilariously presented 3 of the 4 YouTube videos that were on page 1.&lt;p&gt;I was immediately turned off, so I pulled up DuckDuckGo and Bing, entered the same exact query, and both engines returned the song I was looking for in the first result. I laughed out loud.&lt;p&gt;I then thought to myself, &amp;quot;I wonder how many pages I would have had to flip through in Google to find this result.&amp;quot; Eventually, I found it. It was the 68th result on page 7.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stavros</author><text>Same with all organic content. It&amp;#x27;s just all bullshit SEO spam now, I haven&amp;#x27;t landed on some dude&amp;#x27;s blog in ages, and some dude&amp;#x27;s blog is my favorite part of the web.</text></comment>
<story><title>For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads</title><url>https://twitter.com/spakhm/status/1489480845979095040</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>shiftpgdn</author><text>Same with Sheldon Brown’s website on bicycle maintenance.  Much of the information on his site is still the best resource on the internet but instead Google would rather serve irrelevant results that show ads.</text></item><item><author>heavyset_go</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m still bitter that they&amp;#x27;ve deprioritized results from SongMeanings.net in favor of garbage like Genius. The former is one of the only sources for lyrics from smaller acts, especially from the 90&amp;#x27;s to early 2010&amp;#x27;s. Since it&amp;#x27;s from the pre-Web 2.0 era, it&amp;#x27;s disappeared from Google&amp;#x27;s search results.</text></item><item><author>tomatofrank</author><text>Last night I watched a YouTube video that had a song in the background that I hadn&amp;#x27;t heard but really liked. I pulled up Shazam but it didn&amp;#x27;t recognize the song, so I took to Google. I entered the lyric and added the search terms &amp;quot;lyrics&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;r&amp;amp;b&amp;quot; at the end. Google returned 4 YouTube videos to songs that didn&amp;#x27;t contain the lyric, a link to a Boyz II Men song on Genius that didn&amp;#x27;t contain the lyric (good job Google, you know an R&amp;amp;B band), a link to peterbe.com to find a song by lyrics, and a bunch of other useless links. I clicked on to page 2, which hilariously presented 3 of the 4 YouTube videos that were on page 1.&lt;p&gt;I was immediately turned off, so I pulled up DuckDuckGo and Bing, entered the same exact query, and both engines returned the song I was looking for in the first result. I laughed out loud.&lt;p&gt;I then thought to myself, &amp;quot;I wonder how many pages I would have had to flip through in Google to find this result.&amp;quot; Eventually, I found it. It was the 68th result on page 7.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hetspookjee</author><text>It’s only a matter of time till it gets ripped and hosted on another ad filled website like all the fake stack overflow websites these days. So at least the material is not lost.</text></comment>