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By technical, I meant in my own field of web development/mobile development, but I'm sure it applies to other fields as well. I can give a few general examples
by electrichead 15y ago
By technical, I meant in my own field of web development/mobile development, but I'm sure it applies to other fields as well. I can give a few general examples of where I've noticed that results are worse:
- Stack overflow and other forum-type pages don't show up with relevant content, though if you dig deep enough through the pages you will find it. It used to be that I never needed to go past page 2.
- As a corollary, there are sites like bigresource.com that show up all the time and they only exist to scrape content from other sites, and these guys show up near the top. I thought that this was a big reason for the update in the first place, but I only noticed them after the update. I also can't seem to block them when I hit the back button (this only shows up sometimes)
- Way more aggressive auto-correction. This should be an option that is adjustable. There are many technical terms that are spelled a certain way that the system attempts to auto-correct and if I go with verbatim, it seems that this hurts results quite badly. Maybe the indexing itself does some auto-correction?
I don't remember specifics, but the most recent one was trying to find information on SIP and SIP trunking - it's taken me 2 weeks and I'm sure it would take me less if I had better results (like I had in the past).
All is not gloomy though. I love that you can now use some special characters: this has saved me many times.