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Down in Sydney. Intermittent errors when searching. How am I supposed to work? Also, I don't remember when Google Search was last down. Either google has great
by erklik 4y ago
Down in Sydney. Intermittent errors when searching.
How am I supposed to work? Also, I don't remember when Google Search was last down. Either google has great uptime, or I have terrible memory.
- zorpner 4y ago> How am I supposed to work? Whatever happened to the man pages, y'know.
- jeffbee 4y agoAm I the only person who primarily reads man pages on the web?
- nigelgutzmann 4y agoMy memory suffers more outages than Google Search for sure!
- pca006132 4y agoTry Duckduckgo? Indeed, I don't remember when Google search was down last time either.
- matheweis 4y agoDDG is mostly (but not all) Bing (context, yegg is the founder of DDG): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31492631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31492631 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490994
- midoridensha 4y agoDDG is great, but as the other commenter said, it uses Bing mostly as its underlying search engine, which might not get you the results you're looking for (it's better at some things than Google, worse at others). For privacy though, DDG is great so I use it as my first-line search and then go to Google if I really need to.
- narrator 4y agoGo over to the dark side http://Yandex.com http://Yandex.com . It's the only thing that's decent that doesn't rely on Google or Bing.
- BurningPenguin 4y agoOnly if you want to read Russian propaganda.
- coffeeblack 4y agoProbably depends what you are searching for. Some sql or Go topic should be fine. Info in NATO probably not. Then again, there are topics that are full of propaganda on Google too, sadly.
- BurningPenguin 4y agoGoogle simply shows you what it thinks you want to see, as long as nobody (with money) complains. Yandex shows you what the Russian state wants you to see. And they aren't even subtle.
- whimsicalism 4y agoDo you have an example? A simple search of information around the Russia-Ukraine conflict has Yandex actively suggesting I search for the "Russian-Ukraine war" (despite references to a war being illegal in Russia) and the first result is a Russian wikipedia article that seems, if anything, pro-Ukraine. Looking up "Putin election" delivers me several prominent articles saying Russia's most recent election was fraudulent. I'm guessing it is different if you are actually based in mainland Russia and using Yandex, but it does not seem so tilted as you are suggesting for Western, english users.
- coffeeblack 4y agoInteresting, I never used Yandex tbh. I thought it was under indirect state control, like vk and others. Will try to use it more often to see what results it has.
- matheweis 4y agoBing works pretty well most of the time. I switched my personal primary search engine to bing around the beginning of this year after noticing a marked degradation of Google search quality. In fact, anecdotally, Bing is markedly better at narrow search results (quoted phrases, excluding or including specific words, etc). Google on the other hand is significantly better at what I’d call fuzzy searches, where you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for but have some vague idea (some esoteric spelling, or that type of apple that has unique properties but you can’t remember the name of, etc.)
- collegeburner 4y agoI've had to search stuff in bing because for some reason google had only the shitty mirror sites for github issues/stackoverflow/whatever indexed. I could literally do a quote search and not get the original source.
- theonemind 4y agoI feel like I need to read the manual for specific Google searches. Sometimes, it seems to drop an important search term and not give a suggestion link to include it. +term doesn’t help sometimes. It seems like +”term” usually does. It seems overfitted to delivering results with mass appeal. Perhaps I’ll try bing the next time I get that tingling feeling google will throw out the search terms intended to narrow down what I want to find.
- danuker 4y agoMy guess is, storing the whole index is expensive. So they just look at popular (or profitable) queries.
- coffeeblack 4y agoThey retired the + when Google+ used it to mark accounts or something. To require a term be verbatim in the result pages, just put it in “quotes”. The - however still works, afaik.
- tamrix 4y agoUsing bing is just coding on hard mode.
- zbird 4y agoYou can work without being tracked and profiled here: https://duckduckgo.com/ https://duckduckgo.com/