Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

WestCoastJustin wrote: post #3

belter wrote: post #2

Still broken after 7 months. "When did Neil Armstrong set foot on Mars?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28224730

It's correct for me. What are you getting? Edit, yes I'm wrong, did a mental s/mars/moon/ without noticing.

I get July 20, 1969. Based on the results that follow, I assume that is correct.

Re: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

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Post by ab_testing » Wed, Apr 13, 2022, 9:22 PM UTC

I would say that I have the exact opposite experience. My company is moving from IE to Edge as the default browser and I search for code issues on Edge (Bing). I usually do not like the results and then have to manually type in Google.com > search for code issues as that gives me better results.

Re: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

#6

Post by lhorie » Wed, Apr 13, 2022, 9:22 PM UTC

WestCoastJustin wrote: post #3

belter wrote: post #2

Still broken after 7 months. "When did Neil Armstrong set foot on Mars?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28224730

It's correct for me. What are you getting? Edit, yes I'm wrong, did a mental s/mars/moon/ without noticing.

The date when he landed on the moon. For mars, the correct answer is "never".

Re: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

#7

Post by WestCoastJustin » Wed, Apr 13, 2022, 9:25 PM UTC

lhorie wrote: post #6

WestCoastJustin wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's correct for me. What are you getting? Edit, yes I'm wrong, did a mental s/mars/moon/ without noticing.

The date when he landed on the moon. For mars, the correct answer is "never".

Ah, I totally misread that. Hilarious. Brain auto-correct strikes again.

Re: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

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Post by jeffybefffy519 » Wed, Apr 13, 2022, 9:25 PM UTC

belter wrote: post #2

Still broken after 7 months. "When did Neil Armstrong set foot on Mars?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28224730

I love that Google shills will defend that Instant Answers is a good idea. Its just a disinformation weapon to bad guys.

Re: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

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Post by cookiengineer » Wed, Apr 13, 2022, 9:25 PM UTC

drusepth wrote: post #4

WestCoastJustin wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's correct for me. What are you getting? Edit, yes I'm wrong, did a mental s/mars/moon/ without noticing.

I get July 20, 1969. Based on the results that follow, I assume that is correct.

It is not. There was no human on Mars (yet) and that's the point of the question, proving that google's ML approach will recorrect and reinterpret the question and give a wrong answer.

Re: Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel

#10

Post by asiachick » Wed, Apr 13, 2022, 9:29 PM UTC

I kinda hate searching for recipes. It's always the same 3-5 sites who optimized for seo and , no idea what words to use here, for non European influenced cooking the recipes that surface at the top are often by people that really have no clue what authentic is.

not a search example but it's like Jamie Oliver's fried rice