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Ask HN: Does Google restrict your ability to conduct valuable research?
When conducting research on your desired topic, does Google search's flaws inhibit your ability to conduct the research efficiently? What are those specific flaws?
- giantg2 6y agoI haven't found any. It's usually the search phrase specificity that gives me incorrect results. As a basic example, if I search 'lions mane', I'll get pictures of male lions with manes. If I added 'mushroom' to the end, then I will get the mushroom I'm looking for. I think Google has an academic search type if you want true research results.
- anoncake 6y agoYes, Google Scholar. But that only finds things that look like academic papers.
- RickS 6y agoTheir softening of rules around "verbatim" searches is frustrating. I'll search for 3 words, all mandatory, and will get results that are missing one and have to click "must include X" or preemptively include quotes. Verbatim quotes aren't compatible with other search filters, which particularly impacts my ability to search for JS things, since that info goes stale so quickly. so I can't simultaneously search for "all these words in this order" and also newer than 2017
- keiferski 6y agoThis drives me insane. If I search for "Einstein quotes on philosophy" and it by default excludes "Einstein", the entire search is useless.