Google Search Is Dying

Re:Google Search Is Dying by emodendroket on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:36PM (#30350702)

I honestly find it pretty helpful. You can type "russian murder painting" into Google and it will come up with Ivan the Terrible and His Son. All that hinting may be annoying if you know exactly what you wanted, but I'm not a specialist in everything I ever search for.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by kelnos on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @02:11PM (#30351206)

Then again, both DuckDuckGo and Kagi also give that result for that search phrase. As well as being more generally useful for more specific searches as well.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by mcv on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:23PM (#30353681)

What would be nice is if you could toggle this behaviour. Sometimes I know exactly what I'm looking for, sometimes I don't. Assuming I never do is at least as silly as assuming I always do. Just give me the option.

I am frankly baffled that after all this focus on "personalised search", they still don't actually allow you to personalise your search like that.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by betwixthewires on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @06:18PM (#30354273)

You can. Or at least you used to be able to, by putting your query in double quotes. Apparently it no longer works either.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by emodendroket on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:11PM (#30355192)

Don't you just put words or phrases in double quotes when you want to tell it you know what you want?

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