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From an indexing/search perspective it's already impossible to find some of the more obscure videos I saw in 2013 because of the relentless crap flood of "thing
by jschwartzi 6y ago
From an indexing/search perspective it's already impossible to find some of the more obscure videos I saw in 2013 because of the relentless crap flood of "things sort of like what you searched for that are newer."
- metiscus 6y agoWell that and the growing penchant for revising history by destroying dissent, blacking out unpleasant thoughts and facts, and the onslaught of ridiculous copyright strikes against fair use content.
- gumby 6y agoDoesn’t that suggest a market need for another search engine for this purpose?
- Avicebron 6y agoMeta-search? Searching the search engine..I like it.
- boogies 6y agoMetasearch engines are a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine Here's a nice one with many public instances you can try: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx https://github.com/asciimoo/searx
- Arelius 6y agoI constantly have trouble trying to find "that one tweet" from yesterday, a much less intimidating problem.
- flancian 6y agoTwitter has notoriously flaky search in my experience; it is clearly geared towards discovering new content and not towards finding content you engaged with previously. This misses the point often, as more and more people use Twitter as a sort of social note taking tool. I think this is one area where general purpose search engines are failing users currently. We should be able to tell Google "that one tweet from yesterday" and have it return something meaningful to us. Of course I understand that this is hard and becoming harder as social media companies hold on to their walled gardens, but clearly (to me anyway) the status quo is to the detriment of the user.
- paulmd 6y agouse the "before:YYYY-MM-dd" search parameter
- gniv 6y ago... which you can combine with after:YYYY-MM-dd