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With one dominant search provider, we are constantly conditioned to parse the results from Google. It is very easy to ignore certain parts of the page and menta
by mbreese 4y ago
With one dominant search provider, we are constantly conditioned to parse the results from Google. It is very easy to ignore certain parts of the page and mentally process which parts of the page your brain is interested in.
So, while it’s not necessarily “information dense”, finding the information you need is comparatively “cognitively light”. Or at least predictable…
The devil you know…
- danenania 4y agoFair point, but I think the technical term for that is "Stockholm Syndrome". Or perhaps in this case, we should call it "Mountain View Syndrome".
- rushingcreek 4y agoYou're right -- we are all conditioned by Google. Yet, using Hello for my own technical searches these past few weeks, higher signal and lower noise is much better for me personally. At the end of the day, Justin and I are making the search engine that we want to use ourselves as developers.