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Are you saying the quote-a-single-word thing doesn't work for you?
It has not been a guarantee for several years, now. At best it seems to be a slightly firmer suggestion.
I believe you, just never seen it myself. Perhaps I switched some obscure setting on years ago.
I've convinced myself that this happens in gmail / hangouts history search too. It'll very confidently tell you that here are the only six results for your search term going back to the beginning of time, but if you go and manually dig up something that you know is there from ten years ago, then all of a sudden there are seven results the next time you search for the same term. I haven't done this methodically, and I…
I've had this for Chrome history as well. There have been multiple times where I'm sure I've browsed a site with some keyword in the title and it just doesn't show up in search. I don't tend to have a clue about the time window it would be in either so I can't go looking for it, so I can't prove it.
I've switched completely to bing for a few reasons: 1) Bing is much faster to load 2) Bing doesn't muck up the links. I can right click->copy and get the actual link. With google you get a long incantation that doesn't tell you what site it goes to. 3) Bing handles a few things better, eg, "$500 in ₹" works in bing but not in google. However, when I need local results, or results about something ongoing, Google is th…
When trying to convert currencies, try using three-letter codes for the currency. To take something a bit more obscure than dollars and rupees as an example, "500 PLN to RSD" (Polish zloty to Serbian dinar) will definitely work in every search engine. As far as I understand it (I never actually looked it up to confirm), currency codes = two letter country codes + first letter of the noun from the currency name, so th…
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I’m on an iPhone now but in many ways it’s a step backwards from my old BlackBerry Pearl, let alone the Bold I got next
Call me a crazy person, lately I've been thinking long and hard about going back to the BB (BB Bold 9930) and am willing to make all the sacrifices that come with it for a lot of the frustrations with smartphone OSes listed in this thread. Maybe I'm getting older and my demands on what I expect from a phone are beginning to normalize and simplify: Text, Calls, Email, a browser for sports scores and reading news artic…
As the saying goes, smart phones are just pocket computers with shitty phones attached.
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It didn't detract anything for me. I'm able to read, comprehend, and digest any wisdom even if it's written with language which I wouldn't use myself. I think it's a really useful skill because you'll find most people do use different language to you.
My problem with the comment was not the dirty words (I love me some George Carlin and Louis Black), but the act of name-calling. The very first sentence of the hacker news guidelines for comments is "Be civil" [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking this way. I wish I could use the Google of 10 years ago. Pre-personalization, pre-deep-learning RankBrain, just the reliable and consistent search engine where complex queries will return the result I want, if it is there. Today, if I'm searching for something unpopular or specific, I usually get frustrated. You would expect the opposite to happen as the size of the web should incre…
Using the Google of 10-years-ago on the Internet of 10-years-ago, or using the Google of 10-years-ago on the Internet of today? Because I imagine doing the latter would just result in an endless wasteland of SEO-optimized content leadgen pages.
The simplest solution: eliminate SEO'd pages from the index before applying search to it.
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I’m on an iPhone now but in many ways it’s a step backwards from my old BlackBerry Pearl, let alone the Bold I got next
Call me a crazy person, lately I've been thinking long and hard about going back to the BB (BB Bold 9930) and am willing to make all the sacrifices that come with it for a lot of the frustrations with smartphone OSes listed in this thread. Maybe I'm getting older and my demands on what I expect from a phone are beginning to normalize and simplify: Text, Calls, Email, a browser for sports scores and reading news artic…
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It actually does this with such consistency that I think it's a very specific mistake. For example, I frequently swipe "See you soon." It always, always renders as "See you son", which I then have to manually retype. Sometimes twice. I don't have a son, and I'm not a blind old cowboy who jocularly refers to any random person as "son". I honestly just want to type "soon", for the love of... anyhow, this is an ongoing,…
> I frequently swipe "See you soon." It always, always renders as "See you son" This works fine for me with GBoard. Are you drawing a little circle on the o to indicate you want the double letter?
I've specifically googled for instructions on how I might be expected to use the swipe-style keyboards, and turned up nothing.
If this about finding older parts of the web, don't forget to use the Wayback Machine of archive.org: