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> Lately, I've found myself feeling like search is back in 1999 again. You're spoiled then.
by patrickaljord 16y ago
> Lately, I've found myself feeling like search is back in 1999 again.
You're spoiled then.
- thaumaturgy 16y ago"It could be worse" is always a valid rebuttal to any complaint. But it doesn't actually move the conversation forward at all.
- patrickaljord 16y agoBut I didn't mean "It could be worse", I meant google search is actually amazing and I find what I'm looking for 99% of the time.
- habith 16y ago> You're spoiled then. Spoiled? I remember search being horrendous back in those days. It was almost exact word matching and it took hours to find relevant results. Google was a breath of fresh air back then (especially since they didn't run all those X10 ads and popups ala Yahoo!). I've switched to Bing a few months ago for tin-foil-haty reasons, and also being disappointed in the way Google interpreted some of my queries (for some reason the plus sign doesn't mean anything anymore). I occasionally use Google when I give up on finding something on Bing, but 99% of the time 4-5 results of the first page are pages I already found on Bing, with the rest being irrelevant results. I too wasn't aware of the search tools that Matt Cutts mentioned above, I'll give it a try the next time I'm having a hard time finding something with a date restriction.