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Ironically, the appeal of Google over competitors when they were just starting out was precisely that you could find what you were searching for without having
by lhorie 9y ago
Ironically, the appeal of Google over competitors when they were just starting out was precisely that you could find what you were searching for without having to add a bunch of symbols to tweak your query.
- always_good 9y agoTo be fair I'm sure this is how it works so well for the vast majority of people. It's a success if only a few power user nerds are the ones using extra syntax.
- arif_sohaib 9y agoThis makes me think. Why not add a Google Science or Google Dev with those features removed. Basically Google Scholar but also showing stackoverflow, blogs and GitHub code/gists?
- distances 9y agoAlso Google without country redirection, my pet peeve. I can't use Google in private browsing mode any more since it insists redirecting to German results (yes, I'm currently physically in Germany), so I've started using DDG too.
- weinzierl 9y agoIf you don‘t want to use DuckDuckGo you can do: http://google.com/ncr http://google.com/ncr I used this as default before I switched to DuckDuckGo completely. For a software developer google.de results are pretty useless. Switching the language to English helps a bit, but ncr results are a lot better for software and tech topics. Also, if you want to break out of your own bubble and get non-personalized results, Google is pretty useless, because of the annoying data protection pop up. Pretty much the only times I use Goggle is for local search , otherwise I’m pretty happy with ddg.
- timstapl 9y agoI believe ncr doesn't really work for this purpose anymore as searching on google.com will give you results for the country you're in without redirecting you to a different TLD. However you can set the region you want results for in your preferences. https://www.blog.google/products/search/making-search-results-more-local-and-relevant/ https://www.blog.google/products/search/making-search-result...
- distances 9y agoPreferences works in regular mode, but I've noticed I mostly browse in private mode these days. Opening a private browser window has just become a habit I suppose, and probably not a bad habit either.
- distances 9y agoI do use NCR to switch to regular results in normal browsing mode where the selection sticks, but I don't know how to do that for the Firefox search box in private browsing. In my experience Google is usually giving more relevant results to software development related searches, so I would like to retain that at least as an option.
- jnordwick 9y agoAnd heavily favoring more recent results. I have to add within the last year or month to almost all my queries.