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Finding a result on Google, clicking on it, then leaving and clicking something else on Google means you probably didn't find the thing you were looking for. St

by johnfn 4y ago

Finding a result on Google, clicking on it, then leaving and clicking something else on Google means you probably didn't find the thing you were looking for. Staying on one site for a while probably means you found what you were using for. Presumably Google uses this information to try to determine if you engaged with the site, and then it ranks sites that you stay on longer higher in search results. This works great for things like StackOverflow posts where you can quickly judge if the answer is correct, and if it's not, you can quickly bounce. It's not great for recipes, which are almost always "correct" (in that they are a recipe of the type you're looking for), so spending longer probably just means you scrolled for longer.

wobbly_bush 4y ago
How does it interplay with opening multiple search results in new tabs at once? It's been ages since I've personally visited search results sequentially - I open them in batches.
- luckylion 4y ago
  Not a problem, you're an outlier, the average user either doesn't use tabs or doesn't open multiple of them to let them load in the background because they haven't experienced the web on a modem and "I click, page loads in 1-5s, I read" is what they're used to.
  - jwestbury 4y ago
    Not sure experiencing the web on a modem is a real factor here. Anecdotally, at least, I've certainly experienced the web on a modem -- and living in a rural area, broadband wasn't available for me until maybe 2005-2006 (and even then, only 1.5Mbps until around 2014) -- but I open multiple tabs not to let them load in the background, but to avoid unnecessary context switches. I can load ten tabs async, never context-switch, and then process the tabs one by one. Half the context switches of opening a page, going back, etc.
    - luckylion 4y ago
      I feel for your prolonged and unnecessary pain with rural broadband, a friend of mine lived just a few hundred meters too far from the great access and suffered for years until the cable company finally relented. Regarding context-switching: that's even more of an outlier! The vast majority never worries about that, and from my experience even among knowledge workers, that's rare.
denton-scratch 4y ago
I've never seen a recipe that was "correct". I don't even know what that would mean. As far as i'm concerned, a recipe is a suggestion. If I don't know how to make a dish, I read several recipes, and then brew my own. I don't think most online recipes are "correct", especially chili recipes that call for Heinz baked beanz. Wut?
- JohnFen 4y ago
  You are clearly skilled at cooking. For people like myself, who are not so blessed, rigorously following recipes is the only realistic path to producing decent dishes. So, for me, a recipe can indeed be correct or not. My definition of "correct" is narrow, though -- if it produces a dish I enjoy, it's correct. Otherwise, it's not.
rendaw 4y ago
I've clicked on videos on youtube and noped out of them in seconds, and youtube only pushes them harder.
- hd95489 4y ago
  Yeah I wish you could hard nope our of videos and never see them again. It should be possible without viewing the shit. I could ban all the conspiracy and fake shit

by johnfn 4y ago

wobbly_bush 4y ago

How does it interplay with opening multiple search results in new tabs at once? It's been ages since I've personally visited search results sequentially - I open them in batches.

luckylion 4y ago
Not a problem, you're an outlier, the average user either doesn't use tabs or doesn't open multiple of them to let them load in the background because they haven't experienced the web on a modem and "I click, page loads in 1-5s, I read" is what they're used to.
- jwestbury 4y ago
  Not sure experiencing the web on a modem is a real factor here. Anecdotally, at least, I've certainly experienced the web on a modem -- and living in a rural area, broadband wasn't available for me until maybe 2005-2006 (and even then, only 1.5Mbps until around 2014) -- but I open multiple tabs not to let them load in the background, but to avoid unnecessary context switches. I can load ten tabs async, never context-switch, and then process the tabs one by one. Half the context switches of opening a page, going back, etc.
  - luckylion 4y ago
    I feel for your prolonged and unnecessary pain with rural broadband, a friend of mine lived just a few hundred meters too far from the great access and suffered for years until the cable company finally relented. Regarding context-switching: that's even more of an outlier! The vast majority never worries about that, and from my experience even among knowledge workers, that's rare.

denton-scratch 4y ago

I've never seen a recipe that was "correct". I don't even know what that would mean. As far as i'm concerned, a recipe is a suggestion. If I don't know how to make a dish, I read several recipes, and then brew my own. I don't think most online recipes are "correct", especially chili recipes that call for Heinz baked beanz. Wut?

JohnFen 4y ago
You are clearly skilled at cooking. For people like myself, who are not so blessed, rigorously following recipes is the only realistic path to producing decent dishes. So, for me, a recipe can indeed be correct or not. My definition of "correct" is narrow, though -- if it produces a dish I enjoy, it's correct. Otherwise, it's not.

rendaw 4y ago

I've clicked on videos on youtube and noped out of them in seconds, and youtube only pushes them harder.

hd95489 4y ago
Yeah I wish you could hard nope our of videos and never see them again. It should be possible without viewing the shit. I could ban all the conspiracy and fake shit