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In my experience, the bar for quality has been rapidly dropping as of late. At this point, most of the things I type into google come back null or with random r
by fao_ 9y ago
In my experience, the bar for quality has been rapidly dropping as of late. At this point, most of the things I type into google come back null or with random results -- even with results that used to return data that was relevant.
- j_s 9y agoCan you please provide an example of this type of search?
- godelski 9y agoI look for scientific papers a lot and have found that I'm getting a lot more sites like IFLS or Ars that are reporting on said paper. Or I'll get related studies, but not the one I'm looking for, when the related studies definitely don't contain a word I'm using. This is even expanding into my code search. Like I'll type "do something os related python linux" and get commands for windows as the first few hits. Clearly I don't want windows.
- j_s 9y agoLike a link please, I want to see "null or with random results". Not sure how customized results affect things though.
- fao_ 9y agoI could spend a good hour or two of my time scouring through my web history for the things that you ask for proof of, or you could take what I said (Like anything on the internet, or based on recollection) with a pinch of salt. It happens just infrequently enough that it is both difficult to find proof of, and annoying when it happens. The null case does not happen so often as the case where nonsensical answers are returned. Needless to say I am not going to do the former, because it was intended to be an anecdote indicative of the general case -- so example-specific solutions are not likely to be transferable, because I don't hand portions of my web history to random people to prove something, and also because I have better things to do.
- j_s 9y agoThanks for 138 words to explain no proof of your original 43 (making what I personally consider to be a rather extraordinary claim) since you have better things to do? I'll go with several times more than a pinch and keep an eye out to document this phenomenon a bit more thoroughly should it ever happen to me. Success to you!
- fao_ 9y agoIt's interesting to me that it took me one minute to write 138 words, thank you for that neat fact. And congratulations on a comment that is otherwise pretty useless. For the record, you do not have the right to demand that someone use their time to prove something that is only of interest to you, nor do you have the right to demand that someone debate you. It is extremely arrogant and self-righteous of you to state otherwise.
- j_s 9y agoSince we are going "for the record" (on a site where comments can't be deleted after an hour and a particular user record's karma column value is doubtless a part of consideration for ~$70,000 or whatever it is now) ... > Can you please provide an example of this type of search? My "arrogant and self-righteous" "demand that someone use their time to prove something that is only of interest to" me >> demand that someone debate you Not found. Apologies for any failures of communication or reading comprehension on my part? Peace!
- StavrosK 9y agoI have noticed this too. Entire vast websites seem very poorly indexed (I can never find relevant reddit comments, Tweets, etc), and the web feels smaller and smaller, if I judge by how many useful results I get in a search. I have no idea why that is, but it's really hard to find relevant information for anything outside mainstream stuff. Just the other day I was looking for how to post JSON in a test with Flask, and I hadn't found anything after tens of searches. Surely, something must be referenced in some code on GitHub, or a reddit comment, or some blogpost somewhere, but it proved impossible for me to find.
- j_s 9y agoI agree that there are problems searching large volumes of user-generated content when it isn't referenced much long term (Reddit, Twitter, etc.). If I don't keep record of Tweets myself I rarely find them again.
- godelski 9y agoWell I'm glad it isn't just me. Though I've been seeing it on other sites like Netflix and YouTube. Hell, YouTube keeps suggesting me videos that I've already watched (search history is on). Like watch a video, go home, it is in the suggested. Sometimes Google amazes me (like when I typed in "mm unit" and it returned "molar mass" which is what I intended) but most of the time it feels like it is going down hill and I have to start using the macros.