I never tought i will say this In the past years i noticed that Google shows me more and more irrelevant results, its like if i search with 3 words, it completely ignores 1 word, that is very important, and shows me totally irrelevant results I found, with surprise, that Bing is much better. Probably Google will ride the popularity wave for a few more years but i don't see them well in the future. And oh: 4 ads at top, 4 ads at bottom, really ? hahaha so hungry
For the moment i don't think i want to give examples just today searched Google for something, 10 mil search results query in the first 10 results i got : - an indexed wordpress site redirect link (not even page, a LINK) - an imgur embed crap stuffed text - a redirect to an adult game (i searched for PC software!)
Search "who is hosting this ip" no1 : generic site which returns same affiliate link for any query no2 : reverse domain name checker (notice i searched for IP) etc jesus what a shit search engine riding the wave of popularity but until when ?!
For that search I get perfectly relevant results. If I was wanting a site to check who is hosting a IP, no problems with Google's search results.
It varies. I stopped using Google and switched to Yahoo in 2004 because Yahoo produced superior search results, at least for the many searches I do a day. Then Yahoo got terrible and I switched back to Google in 2015 or 2016.
Google is still updating its algorithm and not perfect at all when it comes to providing the best related results for the the users query.
I agree with your point. Even for some keywords it is showing absolutely irrelevant and spam oriented results which are hacked, some are not even opening, some are contaminated with polluted keywords and keyword stuffing. Google punishes web pages if they do small mistakes, but how it is showing some web pages which are terribly went wrong?