Even noted problems with freespoke as well. The research is all being throttled and manipulated. Unless you know exactly what you are looking for, you're not likely to find it using a general search - not like days gone by.
I do a lot of research and things are getting worse. They seem to be making changes about every 6 months. I believe we are going through another one of these changes and some are noticing. These are incremental changes that will go unnoticed by those not looking for anything but the most superficial information. The stuff does not seem to be scrubbed, but it is so buried that a search is not likely to pull it up like it used to. Q said to archive offline. Otherwise, we will have no way of knowing what is actually out there.
Even noted problems with freespoke as well. The research is all being throttled and manipulated. Unless you know exactly what you are looking for, you're not likely to find it using a general search - not like days gone by.
I do a lot of research and things are getting worse. They seem to be making changes about every 6 months. I believe we are going through another one of these changes and some are noticing. These are incremental changes that will go unnoticed by those not looking for anything but the most superficial information. The stuff does not seem to be scrubbed, but it is so buried that a search is not likely to pull it up like it used to. Q said to archive offline. Otherwise, we will have no way of knowing what is actually out there.
there is one less ominous, but more annoying, thought.
that they are simply cutting costs on a free service. we know that their ad revenue is down, so why wouldn't they cut corners in other ways?
perhaps we will be needing to move back to directory style services like AltaVista.