The thing that pisses me off the most about google is their biased algorithm bleeds beyond politics. A couple of years ago if I was trying to find an answer for a computer problem. If you typed the problem in correctly you would get a good answer that almost always worked. Now doing the same thing you get sent to the product website. Say the problem is with Adobe, now it sends your to adobe and the problem listed might not even be the one your are asking about. It used to just match the question and give the best answer.
The thing that pisses me off the most about google is their biased algorithm bleeds beyond politics. A couple of years ago if I was trying to find an answer for a computer problem. If you typed the problem in correctly you would get a good answer that almost always worked. Now doing the same thing you get sent to the product website. Say the problem is with Adobe, now it sends your to adobe and the problem listed might not even be the one your are asking about. It used to just match the question and give the best answer.
Easy fix. Just add -site:adobe.com to your search string.
Google works beautifully if you choose to exercise control over it. Lazy searchers will get whatever Google wants them to get.
Edit to add: I just tried that on DuckDuckGo and it works there too. DuckDuckGo is improving, but always seems to be significantly behind Google.
Thanks, I will try that. This problem comes up about once a week.