Google definitely has its moments of returning crap results, but you chose a terrible example.

Results from both docker and redis, on topic for exactly what you asked for.

Why even use Google at all, when you could search docker hub If that’s what you knew you wanted.

You asked for docker redis image, received docker.com talking about redis, and redis.io talking about docker

Idk that seems pretty on the point to me

If you think that’s bad, try googling something related to Android.
All the results are shitty blog posts full of padding text with grammar and spelling mistakes.

For anyone wondering, here’s that same query in DDG (zoomed out to show same amount of results)

man SEO really has managed to break search. There’s so many random blogs that just have pretty much just your search terms in the title and rarely have anything else of use.

I agree with OP here, these results are not great.

OP searched for the redis docker image, not a tutorial on how to use it, not a tutorial on why redis should be run in docker, and did not search for redis docker docs. While these are relevant, they should be further down, not the top result. DDG gets this right, and I’m pretty sure other search engines do too.

For a total newbie, these results are probably OK, but for a technical person who knows what they want literally as they type it, Google’s results are (excuse my french) simply shit. DDG is miles better at handling this stuff, and they don’t need your personal data to do it well either.

Edit: Just went and searched “redis docker image” in a private tab on Google, and the docker hub image for Redis is not even shown on the first page of results

idk… the first two results seem both relevant and authoritative.

I searched for help on a game I was playing the other day and got 300 results, all the same forum post. Like, the exact same post 300 times

On kagi, the first result is also the docker hub link. This example is not actually that bad though, the first 2 results at least still relevant (from docker and redis domains) instead of some random blogspam (3rd result).

This search should obviously return the official Docker Hub Redis image

It’s the 5th result for me.

Don’t really see the “gore” … those are all relevant results.

Just for fun let’s compare the search results of docker redis image:

• Google results - A, B, C, D*, E
• DDG results - E, A, B, F*, G*
• Bing results - A, E, B, C, G* (Bing throws up a bunch of Cards, which i ignored for these comparisons)

So more or less the same high quality results in the top 5 results across the engines, with a little reordering going on.

the* means blog spam.

• A - docker.com
• B - Redis.io
• C - github docker-library
• D* - Kinsta.com
• E - hub.docker.com
• F* - How to geek
• G* - phoenixnap

I had a similar experience today. I wanted to run a battlefield 2042 server and forgot the URL.

(It’s https://portal.battlefield.com)

So I google searched for “Run a battlefield 2042 server” thinking obviously that would lead to that page. Nope, all it gave me were blog posts and wikihow shit.

Isn’t duckduckgo just bing with disabled tracking?

I was searching how to cast the screen on an Android phone through USB yesterday, and I had to go through pages of “free” Play Store apps and their shitty tutorials, some of which I downloaded, (one had 50 million downloads) two of which were identical skins of each other that wanted payment information and charged $20 a month after a week long trial, to eventually find out it’s a default included option on any Samsung phone and can be found in some settings. Google search has completely gone to shit.

Oh it’s absolute garbage. It’s virtually impossible to look up anything and get an answer related to your question.