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Re:Google Search Is Dying by carlosjobim on Monday March 06, 2023 @09:59AM (#35041744)
Not at all! It depends greatly on the content and the person. For recipes it is actually useful to see with your own eyes how to do something. The same thing with many other things, such as for example carpentry and mechanics. I agree that text is better for tech content and for a lot of other things that are mostly text based, or more abstract.

We've been conditioned into thinking text is better because we've all been through schooling, which consists of text books and a person yelling in front of a blackboard. If you let kids watch high quality YouTube videos instead, they would get a much better education.

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Re:Google Search Is Dying by JohnFen on Monday March 06, 2023 @10:41AM (#35042318)
Well, I should have said "text is better for me". Especially for recipes.

Videos aren't dense enough, information-wise. I can't just put them up on a screen as a reference, and they require too much interaction as I have to back up, play, back up, play, back up, etc. in order to use the information being relayed.

If I only have a video telling me something, it's better than nothing, but it's going to slow me down and will inevitably leave out detail that is important to me.

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