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Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by majormajor on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:54PM (#20443923)
I always see posts like this here, and then I try it, and I get a page full of "array length" results for Javascript, while everything in the last year that I've searched for has been Java or Kotlin...

Same when I owned a Pixel after hearing about Google Now and their ML magic there. Nothing more magical than an iPhone in terms of suggestions. The camera was amazing, but not all this supposed contextual stuff.

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Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public by lrem on Monday July 15, 2019 @06:41PM (#20445974)
Wild guess: in a surge of privacy consciousness you told Google to stay the heck away from your data. These checkboxes stick forever and couple years down the line some magic feature won't be able to learn from your data. E.g. despite working there, I still haven't figured out how to let Photos recognize people in my pictures, something that definitely is on by default.
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