# Why does Google image search suck so much dick? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 4, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-google-image-search-suck-so-much-dick/986565 "2023-07-04T17:00:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-google-image-search-suck-so-much-dick/986565/21 "2023-07-05T22:04:26Z")
That’s way more than I ever needed to know, and no, it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-google-image-search-suck-so-much-dick/986565/22 "2023-07-05T23:40:49Z")
Why does Google image search suck so much dick? Why does Google image search suck? Are these sentences etymologically the same? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-google-image-search-suck-so-much-dick/986565/23 "2023-07-06T01:27:44Z")
It could be sucking donkey dong. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-google-image-search-suck-so-much-dick/986565/24 "2023-07-06T01:37:41Z")
In my youth, unqualified “sucking” was taken to be “sucking shit”. No dick involved. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-google-image-search-suck-so-much-dick/986565/25 "2023-07-06T13:57:33Z")
One word: Pinterest. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-google-image-search-suck-so-much-dick/986565/26 "2023-07-06T20:20:18Z")
On my Google searches, that word is always “- Pinterest.” ---
**Author:** ![jjakucyk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3d9bf3/32.png) [@jjakucyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjakucyk)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-google-image-search-suck-so-much-dick/986565/27 "2023-07-07T02:50:57Z")
And now they’ve splattered so many sponsored sections throughout the image results that it’s like trying to navigate a social media feed without any ad blockers. The whole first row is sponsored, then the whole fifth row, then the 6th row has a handful of related searches in it, then the whole 10th row is sponsored, then the 12th row has related searches, then there’s a 2x2 grid of sponsored results plus related searches, then throw in some popular topics. And this is just on the desktop website version. On mobile? There’s like three real search results on the page and the remaining 30 are all this other garbage. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-google-image-search-suck-so-much-dick/986565/28 "2023-07-10T00:51:46Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I wish folks would find and use a different term for a difficult or unpleasant task instead of “sucks dick.” I know. It’s seriously misleading. As a potential suckee, I opened this thread to find out how to activate this feature. So disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-google-image-search-suck-so-much-dick/986565/29 "2023-07-10T17:21:48Z")
Rest assured they’re working on it. Virtual hi-def all-senses sex is _the_ killer app for the internet, AI, cloud computing, and everything else. The company that gets that right will erect a mighty monument with all their revenue. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-google-image-search-suck-so-much-dick/986565/30 "2023-07-10T18:08:59Z")
You may be drilling down too far suck on this. > **[Differences in search behaviour between the sexes](https://www.rebootonline.com/blog/men-bing-from-mars-women-google-from-venus/)** > > The Key Differences Between Genders When It Comes To Search _They also found that men are far more likely to ‘accidentally’ come upon their desired search results, whereas women are more often fulfilling their search requirements “structurally and purposefully.”_ _In other words - women are more likely to use long search strings, while men are more likely to search generally and then drill down. **Men are spreading the net wide and using less key terms, while women are using specific key words for more focused searching.** _ ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-google-image-search-suck-so-much-dick/986565/31 "2023-07-10T18:19:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > will erect a mighty monument Um…and what will that monument look like I’m afraid to ask ---
**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-google-image-search-suck-so-much-dick/986565/32 "2023-07-10T18:31:50Z")
For over a decade Google as a company has organized itself around building The Next Big Thing with zero emphasis on maintaining the good things it’s got. I’ve heard from many former and current Google employees that the only clear way to promotion is to spearhead a new project, and that dedicating yourself to maintaining an old project is as good as declaring your career over. This is also why Google has a strong reputation for announcing products and then killing them, there is no interest in following through or incrementally improving a flawed but promising product. For a long time it seemed Search was an exception from this, since Search and the closely related Ads business are what pay the bills, but even this has fallen to enshittification as time goes on. Every search for a product is now choked by thousands of self-building scam websites that look like storefronts but scrape product listings from elsewhere and steal your money, and every search for information is choked by thousands of self-building AI generated websites that claim to talk about the subject you’re interested in but have only the most inane or incorrect insights. And Image Search, when it works at all, is dominated by Pinterest which is just rehosting the image you actually want and won’t let you click through to the actual site with the actual image unless you have a Pinterest account. The amount of institutional inertia that would have to be overcome to get Google Search put back on track is probably insurmountable, which is why Google and other search providers are banking on doing an end-run around the issue entirely by changing to Large Language Model powered searches. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-google-image-search-suck-so-much-dick/986565.md?page=1)