My biggest problem with Google search these days is their recent push towards localized results.
I speak two languages, english and german. I set my search preferences accordingly and expect the results within those languages to be ranked by their actual quality. However it seems Google favors results in my local (german) language, which often don't appear to be the best results if both languages were weighted equally.
Particularly when searching for "{popular game/album/film} review" I perceive the returned results as subpar, simply because my local media landscape doesn't seem as thorough, high-quality and in-depth to me.
google.com will give you German ranking from Germany. You can still workaround that with google.com/ncr. The results are night and day for programming related questions.
I've heard a while ago that they want to deprecate ncr though.
Personally I use Google only for local searches and DuckDuckGo for almost everything else. Works well for me.
I speak two languages, english and german. I set my search preferences accordingly and expect the results within those languages to be ranked by their actual quality. However it seems Google favors results in my local (german) language, which often don't appear to be the best results if both languages were weighted equally.
Particularly when searching for "{popular game/album/film} review" I perceive the returned results as subpar, simply because my local media landscape doesn't seem as thorough, high-quality and in-depth to me.