Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)
by finiteloops on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:04PM
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This works for the masses, but in my experience when machines force a use case, it causes more headache than not cause I'm not like the masses.
A barely related side rant: my microwave decided it wants to error out when it thinks you're trying to microwave air. i have a bowl in there. stop telling me to open the door to put something in. Whatever engineer at GE thought they would be smarter than the user, you're one of the many reasons your company is going out of business.
Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)
by TuringTest on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:00AM
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I think that it's O.K. when a user interface which issues a warning when it detects a dangerous condition.
The problem is when the warning is a "stop" and it doesn't have an override "I know what I'm doing".
Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)
by mywittyname on Thursday May 28, 2020 @05:33PM
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We have the same microwave.
I also hate that "feature".
Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)
by SAI_Peregrinus on Thursday May 28, 2020 @02:57PM
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Google no longer fully respects quotations. It will still attempt to "correct" the quoted text, and may ignore some terms from it.
Well, I think the answer to your question is Google is trying to be friendly to the layman. It's not hard to think of examples where the user inputs a something into the search box that a CS major knows will not result in the implied wants of the user. Google tries to do a lot of human to machine translation work, and I think you're seeing the result of it. That being said, you can use quotations to explicitly include terms.