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To be fair, the search query in your example is nonspecific, doesn't mention Linux, and assumes the answer will contain a string with your GTK theme's name in i

To be fair, the search query in your example is nonspecific, doesn't mention Linux, and assumes the answer will contain a string with your GTK theme's name in it. Any reasonable indexer probably won't put those pieces together, much less present them over a 20 minute Call of Duty tips-and-tricks video. Google-foo has always been a bit of a trick-of-the-trade. The best place to start on all search engines is with a forced match for your topic (eg. <"Linux" evince "gtk theme">), and then using site-specifiers/bangs to specify StackOverflow/Reddit/whatever. I do this on DuckDuckGo, but I also did it back when I used Google. All search engines suck, I think we're just getting old.

dingosity 4y ago
Fair point. Results get better with "change gtk theme in evince" -- the top hit is now a link to Arch Linux, but then it's a list of several videos about juicing (I guess my android phone overheard me joking about juicing w/ my brother a couple days ago). And one video about video games and one video about someone installing a new gtk theme on ubuntu, so at least there's a relevant video on the first page. Oh. Wait. We now have infinite scrolling instead of paging. Ugh. Seriously? Maybe there's a spate of particularly bad performance as they update the front-end from paging to infinite scrolling. That doesn't seem likely, but who knows? Bonus points for google. They picked up the fact that I switched to a dark theme in GTK and are giving me light on dark results. It wasn't exactly what I wanted, but is what I told my system to do.