It may just be me, but I find googles search console surprisingly inaccurate or at least hard to parse. Even the data within it is often conflicting and I'm not sure why the results show as they do. Things like it will show a click through rate for specific pages but have no correlation to the search terms that drove that click, yet show impressions for the page far beyond what it shows for terms. Can't imagine it will be better for something as hard to track as creator tracking cross-platform.
Reading about anything Google Search in 2026 gives off some Yahoo vibes around 2006.
I noticed yesterday that they've managed to make editing the text field on their search page lag and flip/reorder characters entered during the edit: editing “foot pedal” into “foot pedal keyboard” became “foot pedal oardkeyb”
Also gives off desperation vibes with Google finally doing some innovation on their monopolistic product now that it’s losing market share to AI.
They made search worse on purpose to make more money, then tried gaslight everyone by blaming SEO. It was getting rather hard to find things with it, I would have to explain to people that search wasn’t always this bad. I have negative sympathy for them.
If they indeed made search worse “on purpose”, there should be plenty of alternatives with better results. I’ve tried about a dozen of them, including paid ones like Kagi, and found the quality of results to be universally worse than Google’s, especially for niche searches where it matters the most.
Your logic makes no sense. Just because something is worse relative to how it used to be does not mean alternatives are now better than it.
Does everyone see this? I can’t.
what do you mean? See what?
Please gogol, stop being super evil, restore interop with noscript/basic HTML web engines.
Mirror without Paywall: https://archive.is/fcl2T