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> The The, so much for skipping articles like "A" or "The" I guess. There was this very old meme image of someone searching for "The Who" on Google, and above

by Izkata 3y ago

> The The, so much for skipping articles like "A" or "The" I guess. There was this very old meme image of someone searching for "The Who" on Google, and above the results it said "'The' is a common word and has been removed from your search query" / "'Who' is a common word and has been removed from your search query".

singingfish 3y ago
Back in the early to mid 00s I did quite a lot of work with R, the well known statistical software. There were some pretty specific techniques I had to use to google how to achieve things with R at the time - basically knowing where the mailing list archives were and restricting my search to that domain. Some time later google started using quite a lot of R internally, and suddenly I no longer had that problem.
TylerE 3y ago
One of the common message board software (forget which one) by default ignores/blocks ALL search terms of 3 letters or less. Incredibly annoying on a technical forum that uses lots of acronyms.
- NL807 3y ago
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eschneider 3y ago
"Band names that break Siri" is definitely a thing in my life. Looking at you, Them. O_o
- Cthulhu_ 3y ago
  Also mentioned (although not breaking Siri etc) in the article with https://drumkoon.bandcamp.com/album/they-tried-to-ban-this https://drumkoon.bandcamp.com/album/they-tried-to-ban-this, track titles like "Hey Gugle Play The Music"
- adhesive_wombat 3y ago
  Anything in a foreign language seems to be impenetrable to Google Play. It's also got a goldfish brain so when you reject an incorrect guess it'll make the exact same guess next time. Doesn't seem hard with a an entire datacentre of ML servers to go "hmm, this was wrong 5 seconds ago, maybe it's still wrong now". But then again this is how I imagine it works, so maybe its just waiting for the new previous query service to be released: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ https://youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

by Izkata 3y ago

singingfish 3y ago

Back in the early to mid 00s I did quite a lot of work with R, the well known statistical software. There were some pretty specific techniques I had to use to google how to achieve things with R at the time - basically knowing where the mailing list archives were and restricting my search to that domain. Some time later google started using quite a lot of R internally, and suddenly I no longer had that problem.

TylerE 3y ago

One of the common message board software (forget which one) by default ignores/blocks ALL search terms of 3 letters or less. Incredibly annoying on a technical forum that uses lots of acronyms.

NL807 3y ago
phpbb

eschneider 3y ago

"Band names that break Siri" is definitely a thing in my life. Looking at you, Them. O_o

Cthulhu_ 3y ago
Also mentioned (although not breaking Siri etc) in the article with https://drumkoon.bandcamp.com/album/they-tried-to-ban-this https://drumkoon.bandcamp.com/album/they-tried-to-ban-this, track titles like "Hey Gugle Play The Music"
adhesive_wombat 3y ago
Anything in a foreign language seems to be impenetrable to Google Play. It's also got a goldfish brain so when you reject an incorrect guess it'll make the exact same guess next time. Doesn't seem hard with a an entire datacentre of ML servers to go "hmm, this was wrong 5 seconds ago, maybe it's still wrong now". But then again this is how I imagine it works, so maybe its just waiting for the new previous query service to be released: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ https://youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ