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Your search needs must be somewhat niche. Are you doing PhD research on content farms?
by rfrey 4y ago
Your search needs must be somewhat niche. Are you doing PhD research on content farms?
- TheRealPomax 4y agoHaving decent google fu never stopped being important, you can still find what you're looking for just fine most of the time if you know how to ask google to find that for you.
- throw_away1525 4y agoSo what does your 2023 google fu look like?
- TheRealPomax 4y agoI have no idea how to answer that, because it depends on what I'm looking for, and involves making sure I have the terms that go with the subject I'm looking for.
- mech422 4y ago'Google fu' is a myth - it's just to make us feel good. Google ignores pretty much +"anything" it wants to. (thank god it doesn't igore site: yet) What would be awesome is to have a REAL _search_ engine back, like Alta Vista - with a proper search language, and not some NLP that tries to guess what I want. Imagine being able to search a database with only keywords, vs SQL queries - thats pretty much the difference between something like Alta Vista and NLP/Google/Bing
- taylodl 4y agoI would love to have Alta Vista in 2023! I still remember when Google search first came out and it seemed like magic. Now that magic has long worn off. If it weren't for YouTube, which Google didn't even create, Google wouldn't be in my life at all. I think that's significant for a company that at one time used to be so dominant.
- deafpolygon 4y agoWhat do you use nowadays for search?
- taylodl 4y agoMy default general search is DDG. If I'm searching for hobby-related stuff then I search Reddit, if I'm searching for work-related stuff then I search HN and SO. It seems
- suddenclarity 4y agoMaybe different definitions of Google fu? I can't recall the number of times coworkers claim to have googled something for half an hour that I manage to find on the first or second attempt. Maybe you overestimate the skill of the average Joe?
- pkdpic 4y agoThat was solid.