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Tell HN: Google Search is Getting Stupid
Yes, in the grand scheme of things this is not really that big of a deal, but I am getting unreasonably frustrated with not being able to find stuff that I know exists.
https://www.google.com/search?q=repo+to+docker
https://www.google.com/search?q=repo+2+docker
And to save you time, no the desired results doesn't exist anywhere in the first 4+ pages.
For fucks sake even "repo two docker" doesn't work.
- mtmail 6y agoFor reference what is the desired result?
- O_H_E 6y agoA repo called repo2docker with a thousand stars on github https://github.com/jupyter/repo2docker https://github.com/jupyter/repo2docker
- mtmail 6y agoFor the 'repo 2 docker' URL I get that as first result. Searching for 'repo two docker' as third result. Who knows how many factors play into that.
- drivebycomment 6y agoI get that as the first result for https://www.google.com/search?q=repo+2+docker https://www.google.com/search?q=repo+2+docker incognito or not. shrug
- O_H_E 6y agoWell I didn't remember that the name had a 2, so I searched with a "to" and was lost for 5 minutes until I found it through GitHub.
- drivebycomment 6y ago"repotodocker" finds what you want the first result. "repo to docker jupyter" has your result as the first hit as well. It's not surprising "repo to docker" doesn't find what you want, since there's a lot of sentences that have "repo to docker". Neither Bing nor DDG find what you want with that query either. So, you have jumped to the conclusion - the particular query is difficult, because your query doesn't give enough context to distinguish whether the query is against an entity or a partial phrase.
- O_H_E 6y agoAmazingly, duckduckgo got the correct project (repo2docker) at 12th place. Screenshots https://imgur.com/a/JOu520Z https://imgur.com/a/JOu520Z