You Are Not Google (2017)

Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by prawn on Thursday April 04, 2019 @07:15PM (#19578065)

"I've never purposefully clicked a link from within Stack Exchange..."

How do you resist those crazy unrelated questions in the sidebar? Currently shown for me:

  Did Shadowfax go to Valinor?
  Is it legal for company to use my work email to pretend I still work there?
  Why can't we play rap on piano?
  Can a virus destroy the BIOS of a modern computer?

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by antipaul on Thursday April 04, 2019 @09:26PM (#19578820)

These became so distracting that I applied an Adblock filter to hide the “Hot Network Questions” div, lol!

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by powvans on Friday April 05, 2019 @09:24PM (#19588554)

Ha! I do this too. Just the other day I was pair programming with someone who asked "why don't you have those super stupid questions on the right nav bar?"

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by baroffoos on Friday April 05, 2019 @01:19AM (#19579920)

That sidebar is my biggest time waster in the day.

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by kkarakk on Friday April 05, 2019 @02:45AM (#19580287)

They changed it so you can hide hot network questions(without any karma requirement)

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by crayonixel on Friday April 05, 2019 @05:38AM (#19581022)

Thanks for pointing that out! Direct link for anyone else looking for it: https://stackoverflow.com/users/preferences

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by borgel on Friday April 05, 2019 @12:42PM (#19584367)

I guess it's finally time to create an account!

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by golergka on Friday April 05, 2019 @06:00AM (#19581116)

Well, thanks a lot, now I have no other choice but to google at least two of those.

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by tinco on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:12PM (#19578417)

That shadowfax one, quora is horrible that way too. You're interested in one bit of canon triva one time, and the site immediately assumes that particular story is all you want to read about, every day for months.

I bet gwaihir carried shadowfax to valinor.

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Re:You Are Not Google (2017) by viraptor on Thursday April 04, 2019 @11:18PM (#19579369)

I don't think hot questions are tailored at all, are they? I often get questions from boards I never visited, so I assumed it's a global collection.

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