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Before the internet was only accessible to a small percentage of the world population so they would let them have any information they would want but as more and more people enter the internet they need to control the information to control the population.
The Youtube video tutorials popping up when searching for specific documentation or programming language features is especially disheartening. I've also noted that COVID, vaccine related or climate fact checks are pushed to the top when I search for specific topics which are only tangentially related at best. The outcome is similar for me. I find myself using domain specific searches more and more. This is unfortunat…
I searched for a product on Youtube recently, and the main result was a computer-generated voice narrating words that felt like they had been generated from the product spec (rather than written by somebody with experience with the product)! It will be interesting to see where we are in a few years time.
We have somehow assumed that all this can automated away. We've got what we deserve.
It's not just you. First, I wish you & your wife all the best. For me it's the same. The search has been made more easy for everyone by Google. But that implied the reduction of some Poweruser functions. In the early times, one could use "+" and "-" to define the search in detail. Nowadays, no +/- anymore accepted in the search, but... There is a link somewhere for "advanced search ". If you get onto that page, you c…
- still works. I just used it yesterday. Enclosing terms in quotes also mostly works as an alternative to + although it’s not quite the same. The biggest difference is that I find myself having to use both far more often than before to get non-spam results and now often have to go beyond the first page as well.
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But Yandex is Russian. Aren't we supposed to be boycotting everything Russian these days?
I suspect Yandex is "older" in design, so does not suffer as much from the SEO spam that is optimized to rank on Google.
I sometimes see surprisingly good results from this gpt3 based search engine, if I take a bit of time to write out a sentence or two: https://metaphor.systems/
I don't know - haven't used discord too much to know, does it serve a lot of utility to invite bots to your own server and stuff.. is that a big plus?
It's just you. Google is an extremely useful search engine. As a demonstration of its abilities, note that searching for "Is Google becoming useless as a search engine" with our without the quote marks turns up this obscure article that's only 1 hour old. I use Google hundreds of times every day. I use it to search C++ STL documentation, where I generally get an exact hit in the first slot. I use it to find out wheth…