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rjrdi38dbbdb | 1 year ago

One area where Google search is terribly broken is porn.

If your search for some specific term "$foo", nearly every result is just 'search site $bar for "$foo"', taking you to the site's search page, regardless of whether $foo is actually found on the site.

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Suppafly|1 year ago

I swear the only reason people started using bing is because the search there actually worked well for porn.

scarface_74|1 year ago

On the other hand, when I use to search for anything near the city I lived in, porn showed up way too frequently

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumming,_Georgia

rjrdi38dbbdb|1 year ago

Are locals particularly attached to that name?

Seems like a referendum for a name change would be a good idea, considering the current typical usage of that term.

kmoser|1 year ago

What does that have to do with porn?

rjrdi38dbbdb|1 year ago

I've never noticed that behavior from Google when searching for any other topic. Have you?

buryat|1 year ago

how many people do you think search for $foo and the opposite?

rjrdi38dbbdb|1 year ago

What do you mean by the opposite?

The search behavior is the same whether $foo is a popular generic term or something niche.