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Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by jcelerier »

cblconfederate wrote: post #34

Dear Microsoft, You fools, you own a gate to the internet. When i search 8*9 in the start menu, show me the result of the multiplication instead of a link to "search web for 8*9". Make the menu auto-complete with the titles of the first 5 web results instead of random ads. Make it work well as an actually useful extension of search. Forget about edge and bing.com, you will care about the brand name later. (You can th…

> When i search 8*9 in the start menu, show me the result of the multiplication

but how is that going to increase the server hit rate directly tied to $employee (pardon, %EMPLOYEE%)'s annual wage increase ?

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by MarkLowenstein »

DeathArrow wrote: post #125

Actually both Google and Bing suck. I miss the times when the search results were actually relevant. The worst is Google, even if I try to verbatim search something, the results are about what Google thinks I should be interested in, not about what I am actually looking for. I see here a huge market for search engines which deliver relevant results.

Dear Bing, want to have me as a full-time user?

(1) When I search for two words like OpenIDConnect replyUrlsWithType, only give me results that have both those terms. Don't make me put pluses on everything. And when I do give you pluses, please honor those pluses.

(2) When you ask me "Did you mean [blah]?" give me a button to push: yes, no.

You could literally do this by next week. I'll check in next Friday to give it a try.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by nacs »

hbn wrote: post #141
treesknees wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a relevant comic for this https://img.memecdn.com/scroll-wheel_o_903702.jpg and as someone who has worked level 1 helpdesk, it's very true. People find a way to use the system that ends up working for them even if it's convoluted.

I keep my mouth shut cause I know it's absurd to think everyone should learn to use a computer efficiently as possible, but watching most people use a computer is torture for me Every time they grab the mouse for something that has an easy shortcut I feel the seconds of my life being drained away

I feel the same way whenever I touch my mouse in a code editor like Sublime or VS Code.

I think about how there's some emacs/vim pro out there never using their mouse and modifying multiple lines of code within seconds while I click and drag and select from menus.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by AlbertCory »

When I joined Google in 2005, "yahoo" was the most popular query. How times have changed.

"Navigational queries" was what we called them. There's actually a semi-rational reason why you'd want to do them: if you misspell a bank's URL, for instance, Google will fix it for you, while there could be sleazebags camping on the domains with the common misspellings.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by hunterb123 »

Jaruzel wrote: post #95
MomoXenosaga wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Old people arent idiots they can learn. My 66 year old mom is cashless, does her banking in an app and orders groceries online.

Late-age boomers are in their mid-70s, not mid-60s. Edit: Did my grandparent comment get voted down because people don't know what 'disingenuous' means?

No, some of HN is apparently ageist and loves Reddit boomer memes.

You got downvoted for calling GP out.

I flagged him because it's offensive and a sweeping generalization.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by hbn »

MomoXenosaga wrote: post #57

I don't use Google on my phone because of the ridiculous US copyright law that destroyed their image search. Still upset over that. Luckily Startpage doesn't care about Getty.

The Google Image Search nerf is so tragic. It used to be incredible, and now it can barely find anything. And there's nothing that comes close to how it was before. I'll usually go through the course of Google, Bing, Tineye, and Yandex to reverse photos but I'll regularly get no hits on things I know should exist somewhere online

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by KKKKkkkk1 »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #137
cblconfederate wrote: post #34

Dear Microsoft, You fools, you own a gate to the internet. When i search 8*9 in the start menu, show me the result of the multiplication instead of a link to "search web for 8*9". Make the menu auto-complete with the titles of the first 5 web results instead of random ads. Make it work well as an actually useful extension of search. Forget about edge and bing.com, you will care about the brand name later. (You can th…

Part of Google's success nowadays, I think, is that typing stuff in a browser's address bar takes you straight to Google's search results page. They turned Google into the replacement for typing in web addresses.

When you type into the Safari address bar, it drops down a list of search results while you're typing. I am guessing this comes from the long-promised Apple search engine. It works well enough that I often find myself skipping the Google search results page altogether.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by stronglikedan »

cblconfederate wrote: post #34

Dear Microsoft, You fools, you own a gate to the internet. When i search 8*9 in the start menu, show me the result of the multiplication instead of a link to "search web for 8*9". Make the menu auto-complete with the titles of the first 5 web results instead of random ads. Make it work well as an actually useful extension of search. Forget about edge and bing.com, you will care about the brand name later. (You can th…

For all but a handful of things, I've replaced my Start menu with PowerToys Run.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by unbalancedevh »

ezekg wrote: post #105
krapp wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>People just type "google" in the address bar when they want to go to a search engine. Is this still common? Modern browsers will give an option to run a search directly from the URL bar, or automatically search anything not a URL... I haven't actually had to "go to a search engine" to search in a long time.

Non-technical people do weird things.

I don't like using the address bar for search. It just feels wrong to me, like the browser is taking over that much more of what it thinks I want to do.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by stronglikedan »

Jedd wrote: post #124

Alt-F2 on KDE brings up krunner - a small text input floating dialog in which you could type, say, 8 * 9 , and be gifted the value 72. No spam accompanies this result. Alternatively if I type 'hacker', I shall be shown the three windows I currently have open, along with the 7 bookmarks, that match that string. Otherwise it's a handy shortcut to launch any application I know is installed on the local host. I believe i…

> a small text input floating dialog in which you could type, say, 8 * 9 , and be gifted the value 72. No spam accompanies this result.

For Windows, this can be accomplished with PowerToys Run. It's effectively replaced my Start menu for 99% of things.

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