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Your tiredness is of course both relevant and substantiated.
by hurril 3y ago
Your tiredness is of course both relevant and substantiated.
- emodendroket 3y agoLet me try restating it for the literal-minded: I see many articles making a vague claim that Google search "used to be better." I do not know how one could even measure this and I have a strong suspicion it's based more on the influence of hearing other people parrot it or some vague dissatisfaction with the present than on any real degradation.
- NegativeK 3y agoMy dissatisfaction feels much less vague to me. Technical searches on Google have become a pain in my ass. I'm constantly hit with low effort articles about topics that Google has guessed are similar enough but definitely aren't. 10-15 years ago, Google didn't have the same internet to crawl -- but it also didn't fucking _ignore_ what I asked for.
- hurril 3y agoThe literal minded of you perhaps were not there when Google arrived at the scene. And as you admit: you don't really know if there is a difference. Yet hearing about others that perceive difference makes you very tired. I was there. We used Altavista and Yahoo and they rocked. Until we tried Google.
- emodendroket 3y agoI was there too and I don't think it was so much better. I find it very useful right now. Have any better arguments? You are also misconstruing what I said. I don't say I "don't really know" if it was better. I don't think it was better and seeing people baldly assert the opposite without proof hasn't convinced me my memory is wrong. I'd like to hear something better than "trust me bro." I'm tired of people getting published with evidence-free arguments (though I guess it beats someone condescending to me based on a wrong guess of how old I am).