Sunday, January 10, 2021

Google is still a joke

First page of search results for vox day (no quotation marks):

DuckDuckGo:

  • Vox Popoli (1st result)
  • 8 other results about blogger Vox Day (Theodore Beale)
  • 1 result about an unrelated company called Vox Day

Yandex:

  • Vox Popoli (1st result)
  • 8 other results about blogger Vox Day (Theodore Beale)
  • 1 result about an unrelated company called Vox Day

Bing:

  • Vox Popoli (1st result)
  • 8 other results about blogger Vox Day (Theodore Beale)
  • 1 result about an unrelated company called Vox Day

Seeing a pattern here? And now for the punchline . . .

Google:

  • 7 results about blogger Vox Day (Theodore Beale)
  • 2 result about an unrelated company called Vox Day
  • Vox Popoli (9th result)
  • 1 result for a Vox Media article that happens to include the word day
They've somehow managed to become the worst major company in the field with which their name has become synonymous! I'm going to have to break the habit of using Google as a verb -- and as a search engine, of course!

1 comment:

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Even more extreme: If you search for neon revolt on DuckDuckGo, neonrevolt.com is the first result. On Google, it’s the 35th!

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