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I've been pretty trained that search in the modern era is pretty crap. Nearly all of what I see in the first few results are a cluster (it's all the same stuff)
by partdavid 2y ago
I've been pretty trained that search in the modern era is pretty crap. Nearly all of what I see in the first few results are a cluster (it's all the same stuff), and it seems dumber at interpreting keywords than it used to be. Due to SEO algorithms the content is all anti-concise and rarely contains a succint how-to and almost never is cognizant of version differences. Your search is frequently hijacked by worse-than-optimal solutions or irrelevant stuff whose word jumble vaguely resembles your jumble of words.
It's not the case for everything, but it's often enough that search is just not really my first resort, especially in the case of someone telling me they did a thing I want to do: I want to know their solution, because it works, not trawl through ten pages of "When people use their iOS device, such as an iPad, iPod, iPad touch, iPad mini, blah blah blah." to see if "grayscale" is the same as a "gray filter" and doesn't have to do with image display, etc.