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#2I like that Google is adding new things to try to make their search more personal, though these changes seem mostly superficial and I am unsure many will use them. I certainly don’t and won’t install the Google app on my phone to follow things, if it doesn’t work on web.
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#3Is anyone asking for this? All the Google search users I know have been asking for search that actually gives good results and isn't made up of 70% recopied stackoverflow articles into sketchy blogs and AI written listicle garbage articles. But instead of fixing that and maybe making an advanced search that doesn't suck, they "make" this "improvement."
Here's why I find it funny: following topics/tags is something Google on android had ten years ago. It's also the type of info I have no doubt they have been keeping in the background forever and are only now exposing. They have known if you like mountain climbing, now they are letting you say it yourself.
The only reason I can think for this is because their search algorithm has gone so off the rails making guesses about people's habits, now they need to pin it down with actual user input. That or you get more ad dollars if the user said they like mountain climbing than if you guessed they do.
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#4I was hoping for more modifiers to limit to sites, authors, proper names, and titles. Should've known better.
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#5I like that Google is adding new things to try to make their search more personal, though these changes seem mostly superficial and I am unsure many will use them. I certainly don’t and won’t install the Google app on my phone to follow things, if it doesn’t work on web.
> more personal
They have and are nothing if not excessively personal(ized)
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#6Is anyone asking for this? All the Google search users I know have been asking for search that actually gives good results and isn't made up of 70% recopied stackoverflow articles into sketchy blogs and AI written listicle garbage articles. But instead of fixing that and maybe making an advanced search that doesn't suck, they "make" this "improvement." Here's why I find it funny: following topics/tags is something Go…
> That and you get more ad dollars if the user said they like mountain climbing than if you guessed they do.
Fixed that for you.
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#7I haven't used Google Search for about a year now.
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#8I used to be able to "find what I need on Search" by typing it into Google and clicking on the results. This worked very well for me, but apparently not for Google.
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#9I like that Google is adding new things to try to make their search more personal, though these changes seem mostly superficial and I am unsure many will use them. I certainly don’t and won’t install the Google app on my phone to follow things, if it doesn’t work on web.
> more personal They have and are nothing if not excessively personal(ized)
They’re personal to the extent that they track you and try to predict what you want so that they can make more money off of you, but giving you the active ability to select and follow content is different.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> more personal They have and are nothing if not excessively personal(ized)
They’re personal to the extent that they track you and try to predict what you want so that they can make more money off of you, but giving you the active ability to select and follow content is different.
Shoulda been more explicit in that. Kagi is super personal(ized) as well, just polar opposite intention and implications