On: Ask HN: Is Google becoming useless as a search engine, or is it just me?

[cft]

Bing is much more useful. yandex.ru is more useful for anything that might have political connotations. I suspect it's the new focus on content policing versus search quality and corresponding resource allocation, that did Google search in

[ergonaught → cft]

I almost never get relevant searches out of Bing. It's bad enough I have (seriously) wondered how much Google pays them to operate in order to avoid antitrust prosecution.

[kurisufag → cft]

>yandex.ru is more useful for anything that might have political connotations

unless, of course, the politics are .ru

;^)

[sho_hn → cft]

What types of political content policing is Google engaged in on the search engine?

[rhaway84773 → sho_hn]

None on their search engine. The claim is likely specious.