Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

Google (which started as a search engine, way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth) is now increasingly working on _narrowing down_ the search options available to users.

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

#8

Post by sentenza » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 1:54 PM UTC

The promise was that, as search engines get better, there would be no need for bookmarking and downloading, since all the content in the world is only one sloppy search query away.

Somehow, I seem to have ignored this stubbornly and instead bookmarked pages, downloaded videos and copied strings (!) out of the web for years.

Not that it did me much good, I now have thousands of inconsistently sorted bookmarks and a bunch of directories filled with assorted data.

What this article tells me (again), is that because you can't trust search engines to behave in a predictable manner, you can't even be sure you'll be able to find the stuff that you know is online.

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

#9

Post by hysan » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 2:18 PM UTC

Any alternatives? I asked about this two days ago but got no answers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7124132

Also, I know that "?tbm=dsc" works but I expect the quality of the results to start falling (it already has for a while) since Google probably isn't going to work to improve the filter.

Re: Google Drops Discussions Search Filter and Others

#10

Post by psbp » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 2:22 PM UTC

Piskvorrr wrote: post #7

viewer5 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why ironic?

Google (which started as a search engine, way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth) is now increasingly working on _narrowing down_ the search options available to users.

I need more clarification on how this is ironic.