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I've been shouting for years how google should know by now, if there is a relevant wikipedia page, it should be at the top of the results -- not number 2 or 3,
by gcanyon 3y ago
I've been shouting for years how google should know by now, if there is a relevant wikipedia page, it should be at the top of the results -- not number 2 or 3, number 1. Every time.
Likewise IMDB (not that I'm fond of the site, if there were an alternative I'd switch in a heartbeat) -- if I search for "bogart bacall" then the top six results should be IMDB and Wikipedia for The Big Sleep, To Have and Have Not, and Key Largo.
How google hasn't figured that out in the past fifteen years is a mystery.
- reaperducer 3y agoHow google hasn't figured that out in the past fifteen years is a mystery. It has. Google knows exactly what it's doing. It's just that Google makes money from keeping you searching, not from giving you the right answer.
- Tenemo 3y agoLet’s dispel with this fiction that Google doesn’t know what they're doing. They know exactly what they're doing. They're trying to change the internet.
- cyberlurker 3y agoIs this a Rubio quote?
- sebzim4500 3y agoYeah, it's so good he said it twice.
- gcanyon 3y agoYeah, I said they hadn't figured it out, but generally I agree with you that they know, they're just willing to ignore me for $0.003
- DrRobinson 3y agoTrakt.tv is a good alternative to IMDb btw
- marginalia_nu 3y agoI'm curious, if you're mostly looking for a wikipedia page, why aren't you using wikipedia's search feature?
- yCombLinks 3y agoI always just new tab -> type. Navigating to wikipedia first is a drag.
- teddyh 3y agoI suggest that you change your browser’s default search engine to be Wikipedia.
- gcanyon 3y agoMultiple reasons: 1. I don't necessarily know I'm looking for a wikipedia page. For example it turns out there's a Bogart-Bacall syndrome -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogart%E2%80%93Bacall_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogart%E2%80%93Bacall_syndrome -- that would actually be a false positive, but it's definitely not the first time I've found there are interesting wikipedia pages related to the thing I'm searching for. 2. In general, wikipedia's search is worse than google's -- meaning that if I don't know the exact name of the relevant topic, a google search for <topic> "wikipedia" is more likely to hit the right page than a search in wikipedia itself. 3. Opening wikipedia first is more work than typing bogart bacall wikipedia in by browser's search bar.