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Can you provide some example queries? I work for Google, but nowhere near search. I'm just curious whether that's a difference in search bubbles, as I haven't
by lrem 6y ago
Can you provide some example queries?
I work for Google, but nowhere near search. I'm just curious whether that's a difference in search bubbles, as I haven't noticed this problem.
- mc32 6y agoI was looking for independent movie reviews (in this case red letter media -but without adding RLM as I’d forgotten the source) for Star Wars, but got flooded with to me irrelevant results. To be fair, it’s most pronounced when I’m looking for something I found in the past and then try searching for it in the present. Using custom date ranges help a bit but it’s still biased toward big entertainment and “brands”. So what it looks like to is that it doesn’t use historical rankings to show results but present rankings. So let’s say I was looking for something sports related that in 2005 was on a regional site, today that site is relatively obscure so even if you limit date range it would down rank the legacy site even if back then it would have been at the top.
- lrem 6y agoAh, fair enough, finding a thing I've seen before has never been in my powers too :( I was very happy when someone announced a project to make a thing that indexes your own search history. I believe that it had a Mozilla affiliation. But it never made it to the point I could use it (it might have worked, but I never found it?), which is a bummer.
- lrem 6y agoHmmm, from a quick search, https://getmemex.com/ https://getmemex.com/ might be what I want. Needs a tiny bit of research whether it's something I actually want in my browser.
- 20after4 6y agomemex is cool but not quite fully baked enough for me to continue using it. I've seriously considered setting up my own instance of elasticsearch for this kind of thing, just for my own personal history + bookmarks.