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Google forgets so much, and has a tendency to bias results, while DuckDuckGo is so incompetent at times. Add the walled gardens that can’t be searched unless yo

Google forgets so much, and has a tendency to bias results, while DuckDuckGo is so incompetent at times. Add the walled gardens that can’t be searched unless you are part of them, and we have a worst search experience today than over a decade ago. I am confident that the amount of data that needs to be indexed plays a huge factor too. It just isn’t as easy as it used to be.

tayo42 6y ago
One of my issues with instagram is it cant be searched other then using hashtags. Those are just really crappy key words. So many artists put their art on there and its just sucked into a blackhole of pictures to never be seen again. It's impossible to search and find anything specific or anything that occurred more then a few hours ago
- antoremin 6y ago
  this!
- ffpip 6y ago
  Instagram is just AI. Take what the AI gives you. There is no sorting. Nothing. The comments are ranked by the AI, the posts are ranked by the AI, the explore section is ranked by the AI.You can't sort by time or likes.
samatman 6y ago
All of those things, and don't forget the steady arms race: the contemporary Web is stunningly adversarial to good search results. Ten years ago, when Google screwed up, you'd land on a really obvious linkfarm page with a bunch of SEO spam: it was literally just a collection of keywords repeated over and over. Now, when $search-engine screws up, which it often does, you land on a plausible-looking page, with bad but not terrible English, that just... doesn't tell you anything worth knowing. I know the smell of them, and it can still take me a section or two of precious time to figure out what's going on. There's often not that much link juice, either: as far as I can tell, the business model is purely to put an ad or two in front of my eyeballs.

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Google forgets so much, and has a tendency to bias results, while DuckDuckGo is so incompetent at times. Add the walled gardens that can’t be searched unless yo

by DevKoala 6y ago

tayo42 6y ago
One of my issues with instagram is it cant be searched other then using hashtags. Those are just really crappy key words. So many artists put their art on there and its just sucked into a blackhole of pictures to never be seen again. It's impossible to search and find anything specific or anything that occurred more then a few hours ago
- antoremin 6y ago
  this!
- ffpip 6y ago
  Instagram is just AI. Take what the AI gives you. There is no sorting. Nothing. The comments are ranked by the AI, the posts are ranked by the AI, the explore section is ranked by the AI.You can't sort by time or likes.
samatman 6y ago
All of those things, and don't forget the steady arms race: the contemporary Web is stunningly adversarial to good search results. Ten years ago, when Google screwed up, you'd land on a really obvious linkfarm page with a bunch of SEO spam: it was literally just a collection of keywords repeated over and over. Now, when $search-engine screws up, which it often does, you land on a plausible-looking page, with bad but not terrible English, that just... doesn't tell you anything worth knowing. I know the smell of them, and it can still take me a section or two of precious time to figure out what's going on. There's often not that much link juice, either: as far as I can tell, the business model is purely to put an ad or two in front of my eyeballs.