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>>pabs3+(OP)
> Nobody really expects to be able to find anything of value in a Google search now

This is a categorically false premise. The kind of statement that only makes sense when you're in a deep bubble and entirely removed from the average person's use of the internet.

Deliberately removing yourself from Google is fine for the author who is more concerned about taking an ideological stance than they are about being discoverable, but removing yourself from Google is terribly bad advice for anyone who wants to help people find their content.

Many people do use Google to find content and people, even if you don't.

>>Aurorn+Nm
Google from 10 years ago is much different from the Google that we see in use today... results are much different it's hard to find what you're looking for.... then of course you have the first page covered with ads so that makes it that much more difficult... then there's the negative changes that they made to the instant searching where you type in keywords and then it provides suggestions which are completely not related to anything that's popular that you might be searching for... The one example that is still true today is when typing "men can", google instant will still show "men can get pregnant", "men can lactate", "men can have periods" as the top results...

>>jijji+CF
The web from 10 years ago is very different from the web today. High quality content is found more and more in closed gardens like Discord. The spammers have gotten better and better tools to automate their production of low quality trash more and more.

A lot of tech people have started to use the trick of adding reddit to their query, since it is one of the few bastions of actual human beings talking in volume in the open web. But even that might stop working, if reddit decides to close itself to google, and the way their leadership is doing things, I wouldn't doubt it.