Re:How is search so bad? A case study
by Izkata on Sunday January 19, 2020 @02:35PM
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> I put in key words for something I'm looking for. I suspect that The Masses(tm) type in vague questions full of typos that search engines have to try to parse into a meaningful search query.
Yeeaap, sometime in gradeschool - I think somewhere around 5th grade, age 11 or so, which would be around 1999 - we had a section on computers, where we'd learn the basics about how to use them. One of the topics I remember was "how to do web searches", where a friend was surprised at how easily I found what I was looking for - the other kids had to be trained to use keywords instead of asking it questions.
Yeeaap, sometime in gradeschool - I think somewhere around 5th grade, age 11 or so, which would be around 1999 - we had a section on computers, where we'd learn the basics about how to use them. One of the topics I remember was "how to do web searches", where a friend was surprised at how easily I found what I was looking for - the other kids had to be trained to use keywords instead of asking it questions.