I think it’s gotten worse, but as for how much worse and whether or not Google is better I’m not sure. I think I have noticed a few times when quotes didn’t work, but I think recently I’ve been noticing that I put things in quotes and then there are no results, and thinking about it now I think that happens more frequently than it used to.
That makes me think that they may have downsized the Bing index, and then sometimes they have the quotes work in which case you get few or no results, and sometimes they ignore the quotes so that you still have some results even though they’re dumb.
You say Bing is better, so it seems weird that a Bing proxy would get less results than Bing, but I think I have heard people talk about things like this before, where Bing’s API doesn’t let you paginate as far as the normal Bing front-end does.
That might be what this is. Bing might be degrading their API product more aggressively for some reason, maybe in an attempt to get people to use normal Bing, or maybe just to cut costs? I don’t know.
By the way, you don’t need to be sorry for the rant. More people need to rant about these things.
I think it’s gotten worse, but as for how much worse and whether or not Google is better I’m not sure. I think I have noticed a few times when quotes didn’t work, but I think recently I’ve been noticing that I put things in quotes and then there are no results, and thinking about it now I think that happens more frequently than it used to.
That makes me think that they may have downsized the Bing index, and then sometimes they have the quotes work in which case you get few or no results, and sometimes they ignore the quotes so that you still have some results even though they’re dumb.
You say Bing is better, so it seems weird that a Bing proxy would get less results than Bing, but I think I have heard people talk about things like this before, where Bing’s API doesn’t let you paginate as far as the normal Bing front-end does.
That might be what this is. Bing might be degrading their API product more aggressively for some reason, maybe in an attempt to get people to use normal Bing, or maybe just to cut costs? I don’t know.
By the way, you don’t need to be sorry for the rant. More people need to rant about these things.