Or just use DuckDuckGo instead of google.
And Tutanota, Protonmail or Posteo instead of Gmail.
Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
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Re: Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
#12I get none of the same results as my top hit?
Depends on the region google is set too. You will find varying results based on your location.
Re: Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
#13Google is so unbearable because they are no longer interested in you finding the answer to your query; they're interested in selling your query and its context to the highest bidder. That conflict of interest manifests in what Google has become.
Re: Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
#14I get none of the same results as my top hit?
I get none of the same results as my top hit?
Google spends billions of dollars a year to give everyone their own personalized set of bad search results.
That's the justification for its invasive tracking.
Google: "We to build a dossier about you, your life, your friends, and your family members in order to give you better results!"
Us: "So... they could be worse?"
Re: Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
#15This is nitpicky but the tire changing page doesn't actually fit your rational for choosing .edu pages
>Professors are paid generous salaries to share knowledge with the paying customers of the University (students). So, let’s find some paid unpaid University knowledge on how to change a tire by using our new trick!
But the bottom of the page says
>Prepared by: [students] For Dr. Bruce Magee's English 303 (Technical Writing) Class, Winter 1997-1998.
The professor is actually an English professor and the page was written by students as an assignment. I looked into this because I was wondering, "what would a professor be teaching that he's writing notes on tire changing?". There's probably some professor out there that does that in an academic context, but there's probably a lot of things that no professor actually gets paid to write about. Maybe they would write about something miscellaneous like that anyway and put it online, but they would be doing so out of the culture of web savvy professors having personal pages where they upload stuff they think is helpful.
Re: Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
#16> Oh, and also, Miller is hiring if you’re interested in joining the team. I want to change my tire! Get off my back, and stop trying to make money off me for one second while I solve this tire crisis.
So, you want someone to help you and you are pissed when they don't want to do it for free?
Re: Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
#17Or just use DuckDuckGo instead of google.
It's not really any better in terms of the results it serves up.
If it had a filter to only show pages that didn't have cookie popups then maybe I'd look at it again.
Re: Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
#18Just add “Reddit” to the search string
Reddit is what the internet used to be back when it was useful.
Re: Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
#19Google is so unbearable because they are no longer interested in you finding the answer to your query; they're interested in selling your query and its context to the highest bidder. That conflict of interest manifests in what Google has become.
Got me thinking - Google has became what it is - this colorful commercial ooze - by parasiting on the pre-Google web. Is there a search engine that searches sites without any Google code in them?
Re: Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
#20Counter example: "what is an iris" when wondering about anatomy brings up Wikipedia as the first link. Perfect. With the .edu trick the first link is about the flower, and there's nothing about the human eye anywhere on the first page of results.
Okay, but iris does have two meanings and sometimes you need to be specific in your queries. Your original query would not have been perfect if you were in fact wondering about the flower. "what is an iris anatomy site:*.edu" is enough to bring up this as the first result:
https://www.umkelloggeye.org/conditions-treatments/anatomy-e...