"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/28/2018 at 18:44 • Filed to: None
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"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
06/28/2018 at 18:44 • Filed to: None | 5
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I’m old enough to remember that when you searched from something on Google, it returned that result. I also remember when you had to put queries in quotation marks if you wanted to search Google for what you explicitly wanted. Now that fucker takes your quotation marks and returns this in the results: “Missing: [x] | Must include: [x].” Yes, mother fucker, that’s why I took the time to put it in quotation marks, oh my god fuck you.
Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
> Honeybunchesofgoats
06/28/2018 at 18:58 |
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quotation marks doesn’t tell google you require the phrase. A + next to the word or phrase tells it you require the phrase. Quotation marks tells google it can’t find individual words from the phrase to fulfill results.
Either way, it would be awesome if google allowed Boolean searching. But even the quotes and + are suggestions in their search language.
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Honeybunchesofgoats
> Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
06/28/2018 at 19:01 |
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I mean, I’ll give you that if Google returned no results it would prompt you to search without quotation marks, but at least if used to give you the prompt to search without them. Now it just returns twenty shopping results and asks if you really, really want to restrict your query.
EngineerWithTools
> Honeybunchesofgoats
06/28/2018 at 19:16 |
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Make regular expressions grep again!
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle
06/28/2018 at 19:26 |
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It used to.
Chariotoflove
> Honeybunchesofgoats
06/28/2018 at 19:28 |
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The problem is that using quotation marks makes Google think you’re not serious.
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Honeybunchesofgoats
> Chariotoflove
06/28/2018 at 19:30 |
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But I am so serious.
SVTyler
> Honeybunchesofgoats
06/28/2018 at 19:42 |
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Even more fun is searching images now that like 90% of the results are Pinterest posts.
“Oh cool, you found a sweet pic using our search function that would make a awesome
desktop background? Well we’re gonna do is make you go to a completely different website first, which forces you to close multiple obnoxious signup popups every single time you visit, make you guess between multiple links as to which one will actually get you to your pic (hint: it’s always the other one),
then
after all that we’ll let you get to the site with the actual pic, which btw shows up on page 6 of our search results so you’d never be able to find it otherwise. Also fuck you. Sincerely, Google.”
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Honeybunchesofgoats
> SVTyler
06/28/2018 at 19:51 |
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Fucking Pinterest, man.
I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker
> Honeybunchesofgoats
06/28/2018 at 20:21 |
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Does the advanced search function still exist? I remember a page with boxes that had "must contain:" and "does not contain:" and similar as tags.
Ash78, voting early and often
> Honeybunchesofgoats
06/28/2018 at 20:23 |
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Nothing pisses me off more than when I do a keyword query and the results suck
And my wife does a natural language query and the results are perfect.
Fuck you, Google, for pandering to the lowest common denominator and ignoring people who actually think through the unique words needed for a query.
facw
> Honeybunchesofgoats
06/28/2018 at 20:36 |
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Even setting aside the must include stuff, I’m always frustrated by google happily leaving out terms I searched for. Seriously Google, if it doesn’t have what I searched for, that means it’s not what I’m looking for, it definitely shouldn’t be in the top few results.
Also, why google searching for synonyms is often helpful, it can be really annoying if you are searching for a specific technical term/phrase.
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facw
> SVTyler
06/28/2018 at 20:42 |
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Yeah I hate that. It really sucks that given the choice Google prefers the Pinte rest version over other sources. Makes it really difficult to get context for some photos.
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Honeybunchesofgoats
06/28/2018 at 21:44 |
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If I'm going to get garbage search results, I might as well get paid for it and use Bing.
winterlegacy, here 'till the end
> SVTyler
06/28/2018 at 22:12 |
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The quickest fix is to do -pinterest.
However I’ve been using DuckDuckGo and it does a much better job of finding pictures mostly because it just grabs them from anywhere on the internet with minimal filtering, but sometimes I have to throw an image I find into the googlesphere to see if there’s bigger versions of it.
Dogsatemypants
> Honeybunchesofgoats
06/29/2018 at 03:09 |
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They stop0ed that a few years back. I miss being able to type in a specific anything in quotes and have a valid return. I also miss being able to use logic statements in the searchbox