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Google suggest vi for Emacs and Emacs for vi
- swiley 6y ago"Did you mean: vi" That sounds like a "passive aggressive" post from /g/ haha! There's also this https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1333622758052388864/photo/1 https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1333622758052388864/photo/1 Someone from google said search is just a kind of AI. I think some other people like to say AI is just a random number generator that's good at convincing people there's some intelligence.
- eitland 6y agoThere's something AI-like going on, it just happens to be significantly dumber than the old thing: My "favorite" type of search problem is when I as a developer search for Angular mat-table and it shows me tables with mattresses on: Clearly something is going on in there but it is dumber than most dogs and to make matters worse - less obedient too (For 10 years Google couldn't get itself to accept when I asked for verbatim results, they just had to insert some absolutely irrelevant pages into the the top 10 results every time to waste my time. Now I have changed my defaults, DDG fails just as badly on this, but trying in Google is faster from DDG than the other way around and also it feels good.)
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- globuous 6y agoThat's hilarious ! Reminds me of the « french military victories » query that suggested « french military defeats » (which, as a Frenchman myself, pissed me off in a funny way :p)
- gspr 6y agoIt's also funny how the way you recount the story is the way most people remember it. It is, in fact, not what happened! What really happened was that someone created a web page that resembled the Google results – and included that suggestion. They managed to get that page to become the number one hit for the search term "french military victories". The idea was then that if someone hit "I'm feeling lucky", it would seem like Google suggested "french military defeats". The page is still up, although the Google-like appearance is no longer very up to date: https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html
- kordlessagain 6y ago> The French military victories Google bomb was created in 2003 by Steve Lerner, a university student from Toronto. Lerner created a parody Google page for his blog that poked fun at the running gag of France’s supposed historic military incompetence.
- Privacy846 6y agoLerner? Is his name also a joke?
- scarmig 6y agoLerner is a fairly common German/Jewish last name
- woofie11 6y agoSupposed? The white flag was literally the national standard of France for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flag#Ancien_R%C3%A9gime_in_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flag#Ancien_R%C3%A9gime_... France's second-greatest or third-greatest national hero literally sacrificed all the women and children to save himself (and failed to save himself, at that): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia#Siege https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alesia#Siege Not to mention France's betrayal of Poland at the start of WWII (there was a mutual defense pact, which France satisificed trying to not annoy Germany): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II#War_breaks_out_in_Europe_(1939%E2%80%9340) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II#War_breaks_out_in... Failing to face Germany together, France then promptly got conquered itself, providing scant resistance even when attacked. It then collaborated with the Nazis. Then there are the English raiding parties into France. Remember the Black Prince? Heh. France was way bigger, but way cowardlier. The "flower of European chivalry" was killed altogether by a bunch of poor peasants from England because it turned out the French knights had zero discipline. The only time when France had its military act together was during the time of Napoleon. Otherwise, it had a modest success by bullying technologically-inferior places during the age of colonialism. After two millennia of this sort of crap...
- ghostDancer 6y agoSome AI just want to watch the world burn.
- vipa123 6y agoThis is obviously some plain old I
- thrwyoilarticle 6y agoOnly on the Emacs link
- racl101 6y agoDon't they all?
- zhengyi13 6y agoNo. A paperclip maximizer wants to make paperclips.
- Ideabile 6y agoAlso `recursion` is interesting.
- cmehdy 6y agoAnd askew
- qz2 6y agoClearly the issue is it should suggest vi for emacs and vi for vi :)
- ComputerGuru 6y ago*nvim for vi
- qz2 6y agoI'm still using classic vim. Should I move over?
- sojournerc 6y agowhat got me to switch was being able to run terminal commands in a buffer... https://neovim.io/doc/user/nvim_terminal_emulator.html https://neovim.io/doc/user/nvim_terminal_emulator.html
- gnubison 6y agoI don't use it that often (I just open up another terminal), but you can also use ^Z to put vi in the background. It would be more useful if I didn't always forget and open up a new vi which would refuse to write to the file :)
- sojournerc 6y agoI honestly do both. When I'm running something I want the output from (some to yank), I'll run in a buffer. If doing file manipulation, CLI, etc. etc. I'll ctrl-z out. I do the opposite of you pretty often too, always trying to `fg` a non-existent vim
- gnubison 6y agoHmmm. I hadn't thought about being able to yank output from a command... That's a really good point. (Honestly I would probably use 'xsel -bi' and ':r !xsel -bo', but that's pretty ugly.)
- WillYouFinish 6y agoI guess this is manually set by some employee, but I wonder if such links might have been also created automatically for some topics.
- stewartbutler 6y agoI'm fond of "Alex Trebek" including "Did you mean: Who is Alex Trebek." Nice homage. https://www.google.com/search?q=alex+trebek https://www.google.com/search?q=alex+trebek
- rilindo 6y agoCheeky, google. What's next, type Windows and you suggest Linux?
- devenblake 6y agoSearch: install windows 10 Did you mean: install gentoo
- marcosdumay 6y agoNo, it's obviously Arch. Gentoo users are busy doing other things and don't have time to push it into everybody.
- scbrg 6y agoBy other things, you mean compiling? :-)
- marcosdumay 6y agoI didn't want to put it that explicitly...
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- elchin 6y agoAlso "erlich blachman" and "erlich bachman"
- Kyro38 6y agoI had to add hl=en to the url to get the expected result (forcing the page to english) https://www.google.com/search?q=emacs&hl=en https://www.google.com/search?q=emacs&hl=en
- Crosseye_Jack 6y agoDo a Barrel Roll https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll
- lqet 6y agoThis one is also nice: https://www.google.com/search?q=festivus https://www.google.com/search?q=festivus
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- edgyquant 6y agoDoesn’t seem to work on Safari/iPad
- Tsiklon 6y agoIt works for me on Safari/iPhone perhaps it’s to do with the size of the window
- Crosseye_Jack 6y agoIt does work on iPad but only in mobile viewv (iPhones default to mobile view so thats why it works "out of the box" there). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fgVHP3Nlww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fgVHP3Nlww
- 0x1F8B 6y agoHeh I saw this the other day and just assumed that easter egg had always been there.
- staticvar 6y agoI thought this was going to be a link to a technical article suggesting the merge of vim and emacs... Vimacs.
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- throwaways885 6y ago"Steamed hams" is a great one :)
- racl101 6y agoSearch for "Star Trek" Google: Did you mean "Star Wars"?
- _verandaguy 6y agoIn the same vein, Wikipedia will disambiguate "The one with the whales" to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
- caogecym 6y agoHa, what happens if Google craw this particular page? Infinite loop?
- arusahni 6y agoI miss the days when Google used to be whimsical and weird.
- tyingq 6y agoMore: https://searchengineland.com/the-big-list-of-google-easter-eggs-153768 https://searchengineland.com/the-big-list-of-google-easter-e...
- kazinator 6y agoThe Google organization is clearly sensitive to the role of online services play in promoting divisiveness, and doing something about it.
- adembudak 6y agoWhen I type "string", it returns commercials for g-string models. I love it because it makes me realize I'm living in in a small bubble.
- rat87 6y agoIf you think that's something try googling c-strings (not at work)
- qart 6y agoI got all the search results I expected: handling of strings in C, and a tiny bit of C++ thrown in. What do you get?
- renewiltord 6y agoHaha! People accidentally leaking their porn search habits always makes for great internet humour. I, too, get C-lang strings for "c strings" (with or without quotes) and C++, Java, the STRING bio database for just "string" or "strings".
- rat87 6y agoI assure you it doesn't line up with my porn search habits. It came up one day when searching and now it doesn't seem to come up (unless I click on image search), who knows how googles algorithm works?
- rat87 6y agoIt used to come up, now doesn't seem to unless I look in image search? It's basically a highly impractical piece of women's (and maybe men?) underwear that's supposed to be "sexy" but is more WTF https://www.bustle.com/articles/34628-i-wore-the-c-string-so-you-dont-have-to-experience-the-weirdness-that-is-this-barely https://www.bustle.com/articles/34628-i-wore-the-c-string-so...
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- bryanrasmussen 6y agoI liked how if you go to vi the page has the following: Did you mean emacs A top ad placement for VI(trademarked) Vodafone and Idea which are now trademarked together! So exciting. A top stories link - Vi (Vodafone) launches Rs 948 family postpaid plan with unlimited benefits: Check details The Indian Express·14 hours ago View all Which is really great that I can keep up on all the news about Vodafone. questions people ask about Vi, half of which are about editor and other half not. at 100% zoom on my mac air I get half of the questions interestingly enough before I have to scroll down. Wikipedia page about the editor So I have to scroll down to see the first relevant hit, now of course it makes total sense that vi has other hits, also because in Danish it means we, but the dumb joke on the top makes it sort of silly, especially if I just followed from emacs to vi, because in that case I would think - huh, a vote for ranking results for text editor +10. Maybe I'm just easily irritated right now.
- boogies 6y ago> Wikipedia page about the editor > So I have to scroll down to see the first relevant hit FWIW this is the top result on DuckDuckGo and Searx, and on the latter most of the first screenful of results are about the editor (all if you count https://vi-editor.com/ https://vi-editor.com/). Interestingly the first screenful of searx results all come from DDG (the next has many from reddit), but the pages are definitely different. Edit: and on Startpage! So apparently your results may just be the result of Google trying to create a personalized filter bubble for you.
- oceliker 6y agoIn US, behind a pi-hole, all results on the first page except one are directly vi-related. Not sure if this might have something to do with the fact that I've been searching spacemacs keybindings nonstop in the past 2 weeks.
- strombofulous 6y agoThis definitely has something to do with your (or my!) search bubble because the top link for `vi` for me is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi, followed by "Basic vi Commands - Colorado State University" and "How to Use the vi Editor - University of Washington" (vim.org is the 4th link)
- cuddlybacon 6y agoI have to turn adblock off to see many of these. Strange.
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- newdude116 6y ago"I love emacs. Extremely powerful. Just lacks a decent editor"
- whyfy 6y agoMeanwhile, nano doesn't get that treatment