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Off Topic; It fascinates me how much variance there is in peoples searching skills. some people think they are talking to a person when searching e.g 'what is

Off Topic; It fascinates me how much variance there is in peoples searching skills. some people think they are talking to a person when searching e.g 'what is the best way that i can {action}' I think the number one trick is to forget grammar and other language niceties and just enter concepts e.g. 'clean car best'

szundi 3y ago
That’s why they will love chatgpt
BlueGh0st 3y ago
I used to do this. Then when Google's search results started declining in quality, I often found it better to search by what the average user would probably write.
- user32489318 3y ago
  and what would an average user write?
  - amelius 3y ago
    An entire question instead of a bunch of keywords.
CommieBobDole 3y ago
Over the last couple of years, at least with Google, I've found that no strategy really seems to work all that well - Google just 'interprets' my request and assumes that I'm searching for a similar thing that has a lot more answers than what I was actually searching for, and shows me the results for that.
- feitingen 3y ago
  Some concepts seems to be permanently defined as a spelling error and will just be impossible to search for.
ercan 3y ago
I found something very annoying while looking for technical data ( a service manual for an ancient medical device - build around 2001). The same term was the name of the device + something about the power source. The result from the client network - my phone/client computer nothing related to the search for 4-5 pages. Same search from work - second result was what I was looking. So it seems there is a relation with your search history, but somehow connected with the related search history from the same ip/network.
- user32489318 3y ago
  same experience. I'm generally getting better results at client's (VPN) network, we are all googling for the same stuff, I guess. It must be possible to create a fixed set of google searches and rate the location based on the results. So you could physically travel to a Starbucks 20miles away to get the best results for the 'best USB-C dongle reddit'.
m463 3y ago
Unfortunately search engines have learned to, well, basically ignore user input. Amazon is the worst. I used "" and + and - for terms to get what I want, and its search engine still gives you the sponsored results and an endless list of matches based on what you might buy instead of what you searched for. ugh.

szundi 3y ago

That’s why they will love chatgpt

BlueGh0st 3y ago

I used to do this. Then when Google's search results started declining in quality, I often found it better to search by what the average user would probably write.

user32489318 3y ago
and what would an average user write?
- amelius 3y ago
  An entire question instead of a bunch of keywords.

CommieBobDole 3y ago

Over the last couple of years, at least with Google, I've found that no strategy really seems to work all that well - Google just 'interprets' my request and assumes that I'm searching for a similar thing that has a lot more answers than what I was actually searching for, and shows me the results for that.

feitingen 3y ago
Some concepts seems to be permanently defined as a spelling error and will just be impossible to search for.

ercan 3y ago

I found something very annoying while looking for technical data ( a service manual for an ancient medical device - build around 2001). The same term was the name of the device + something about the power source. The result from the client network - my phone/client computer nothing related to the search for 4-5 pages. Same search from work - second result was what I was looking. So it seems there is a relation with your search history, but somehow connected with the related search history from the same ip/network.

user32489318 3y ago
same experience. I'm generally getting better results at client's (VPN) network, we are all googling for the same stuff, I guess. It must be possible to create a fixed set of google searches and rate the location based on the results. So you could physically travel to a Starbucks 20miles away to get the best results for the 'best USB-C dongle reddit'.

m463 3y ago

Unfortunately search engines have learned to, well, basically ignore user input. Amazon is the worst. I used "" and + and - for terms to get what I want, and its search engine still gives you the sponsored results and an endless list of matches based on what you might buy instead of what you searched for. ugh.