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What percentage of searches require something this complex? I’ve been using Google for 20 years now and I’d be hard-pressed to remember a single time when I pin
by paulcole 4y ago
What percentage of searches require something this complex? I’ve been using Google for 20 years now and I’d be hard-pressed to remember a single time when I pined for a more complex interface.
The vast majority of my searches are simple, so I just do my first search and then (in order of frequency) find what I was looking for, do a second search that is either more or less complex than the first, or forget why I was searching in the first place.
Since the results from my first search are often enough, why would I want the interface to do that search to be more complex when the complexity is rarely needed?
- blihp 4y agoWhen the subject is a generic or overloaded name, it's very common. For example, I've often done searches related to Smalltalk or Lisp (the programming languages) combined with names of various popular but generic libraries and get lots of results for small talk[1] and lisps[2]. There are various techniques you can use to cajole Google into giving you something closer to what you want but you end up losing a lot of the results that are the most useful due to terms you need to add to your search that aren't on most pages. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_talk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_talk [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp