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It must have been important to Google to remove agency from the user. If the user is too specific in their search, it's more difficult to use information gathe
by mancerayder 4y ago
It must have been important to Google to remove agency from the user. If the user is too specific in their search, it's more difficult to use information gathered about the user to fulfill what it appears their ultimate goal is: to spoonfeed.
That's what it seems like to me, moving to a world where technology tells you what you want, and you spend less effort telling it.
I think Netflix did a similar thing some time back, just with their front page. Originally it seemed like a place you went to look for things. At a later point, it seemed suddenly a bunch of things were shoved in your face by default, and looking for a thing seemed secondary.
Recommendation Engine, is that what Silicon Valley believes they're innovating on?
An Orwellian nightmare is what is being created.
- dannysullivan 4y agoThe change from + to "" as a restriction option removed no "agency" from users. It provided exactly the same functionality, allowing anyone to require that a particular word or phrase be present in Google Search results.
- criddell 4y agoDoes Google document all of the current search operators? When I search for that I'm only finding secondary sources and have no idea if they are correct or not.
- dannysullivan 4y agoWe have a long-standing page here: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 Also explained here: https://www.google.com/advanced_search https://www.google.com/advanced_search Hopefully we'll get these even more detailed in the future.
- Jtype 4y agoAnd removing "-"?
- LegionMammal978 4y agoThe `-` operator has never been removed? If I search for `athens`, I get results for Athens, Greece. If I search for `athens -greece`, I get one map result for a random "Athens Greece", followed by web results for Athens, AL, Athens, GA, and Athens, OH. At most, the issue is that the widgets don't respect the `-` operator as well as the web results do.
- jll29 4y agoI fully concur.