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> Knowing how to Google was a secret weapon of computer literacy I think it is still a matter of knowing the right techniques. You’ll hear people recommend fea
by heartbreak 4y ago
> Knowing how to Google was a secret weapon of computer literacy
I think it is still a matter of knowing the right techniques. You’ll hear people recommend features like `site:` and such (which are great), but really it’s a matter of learning and adapting to how to phrase queries for Google. It’s still a skill.
- TillE 4y agoThe default experience is far worse than it used to be. A common situation is I'll search for a 3-4 word phrase and the top results contain one of those words. If I'm really lucky Google will have attempted to match some terrible synonym of the other words, but frequently it doesn't even do that! If you put everything in quotes, it's better, but there's so much SEO spam in the first page of results. I can't remember the last time I found anything really interesting with Google, for software development it's basically just a mediocre way to search Stack Overflow, GitHub, and MSDN. It's depressing.
- 3-cheese-sundae 4y agoMost of the old tricks don't work anymore. Instead of using operators and syntax to refine results, now one needs to rephrase their question, which is far more subjective and imprecise. It's no longer tailored for the searcher.