Please now also improve search results without quotes. When I query a b c (without quotes) I want results exclusively containing all 3 words, not just one or two of them. There's a reason I typed it.

Next, remove content thieves like Pinterest entirely from the index.

Next, invest in recency + relevancy over just page reputation. A huge amount of high value recent content is written but it keeps losing against much worse old content which only ranks because it's old. As the typical example: the 15 year old Stackoverflow jQuery answer.

Invest in location awareness. Including location in your query gives laughable results.

Find a way to down rank sites gaming particular categories with shady tactics.

> Next, invest in recency + relevancy over just page reputation.

Counterpoint: Google already gives priority to recency, and it heavily rewards "flip shop" sites that essentially plagiarize existing content. The original researchers/authors who did the leg work get buried in lazy rewrites.

Or how about how every single reddit post, according to Google, is from this year. Then you click it and find out its 10 years old.

I assume this is reddit trying to game the recency metric.

I can't tell if it's incompetence or malice, but this happened after the redesign. I think it's caused by the presence of recent posts from the "more posts" section.

Another consequence of the redesign, much worse than useless dates, is that you get completely useless results just because the same "related post" (the title of which Google happens to deem "relevant") appears over and over again at the bottom of different pages.

To get around this you can search for "site:old.reddit.com" or "site:i.reddit.com". One downside is you get fewer results.

I dread the day reddit stops letting you opt out of the redesign. It's absolutely unusable and hasn't improved at all since launch.