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Wait, what? Google used to put the Wiki article right at the top of the results list. It virtually never does that anymore. This is what's bullshit. The point
by lostgame 7y ago
Wait, what?
Google used to put the Wiki article right at the top of the results list. It virtually never does that anymore. This is what's bullshit.
The point of a good search engine is that it is supposed to conglomerate good results, relevant results - let's say I'm looking up 'Phillip J. Fry' from 'Futurama', but I still want wiki information. Wikipedia won't even spellcheck for you if you don't know how to spell something correctly, like a city name.
If I use a search engine, I'll get this Wikipedia result:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Fry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_J._Fry
But I will also get the far more informative Futurama-wiki result:
https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Philip_J._Fry https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Philip_J._Fry
Wikipedia is not a search engine. Although, at this point, Google is barely one, so plastered with sponsored results it can be hard to find the result you're looking for, and with this change, I've finally made the long-needed jump to DuckDuckGo.
Yes, it's time to 'stop the fucking bullshit', and save all our mental states - searching Wiki isn't going to solve that - but not using Google can help. ;)
Comparing a search engine to wikipedia search is like comparing a search engine to a local file search.
If you're looking for a specific driver on your computer that you know the exact spelling and version number of, a local file search will help you find that. A search engine will return many results with download links as well as potentially other drivers, or other versions of drivers for your product - and will generally forgive you if you misspell something.