{"id":204,"date":"2008-06-05T12:54:41","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T16:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=204"},"modified":"2008-06-05T12:54:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T16:54:41","slug":"google-are-you-losing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Google &#8211; are you losing it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use Google to search for everything.  But you know what?  In the last year, I&#8217;ve had to go to Yahoo search to find things that Google doesn&#8217;t seem to be able to find. A few interviews reveals that Google tweaks its engine regularly (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com.au\/news\/software\/soa\/Google-tweaked-search-450-times-in-2007\/0,130061733,339288267,00.htm\" target=\"_blank\">450 times in 2007 alone<\/a>), but I was looking up some author bios and papers for work, and Google stubbornly refused to find anything useful on them.  Yet Yahoo search popped up what I was looking for right in the first ten hits.  On top of that, I&#8217;ve noticed Google maps (my favorite) has also been somewhat glitchier and slower lately &#8211; especially when searching for local businesses (looking up &#8216;Chinese&#8217; or &#8216;bike shop&#8217; or the like).  I still have Google as my default search, but things feel a little less solid than before.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else notice this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use Google to search for everything. But you know what? In the last year, I&#8217;ve had to go to Yahoo search to find things that Google doesn&#8217;t seem to be able to find. A few interviews reveals that Google tweaks its engine regularly (450 times in 2007 alone), but I was looking up some author bios and papers for work, and Google stubbornly refused to find anything useful on them. Yet Yahoo search popped up what I was looking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=204\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}