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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by selmnoo on Monday November 18, 2013 @09:52PM (#6758948)
I didn't want to go to far on an off-topic tangent, but basically what I was getting at was that I increasingly seem to be interested in a very limited number of sites -- that is, mostly, sites that I already know of and recognize.

I use Reddit search more when I'm doing exploratory searching hoping to land on a site I've never been before, because it serves me already vetted/reviewed sites. In this way, Google is no longer a tool for me to do search, where I'm not sure where I'll end up, it's now a tool to get me where I know I want to go (which happens to be some wikipedia page most of the times).

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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by mikeash on Monday November 18, 2013 @10:16PM (#6759038)
It is an interesting point. Google has become as much a substitute for the address bar as a way to find new things.
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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by Wingman4l7 on Monday November 18, 2013 @11:18PM (#6759246)
(If you don't have bookmarks or don't keep a browsing history / don't know how to use URL autocompletion).
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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by mikeash on Monday November 18, 2013 @11:43PM (#6759319)
I use autocomplete for commonly-visited sites, but Google plus vague memories of basic search terms have almost completely supplanted my use of bookmarks these days.
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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by Karunamon on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @12:48AM (#6759507)
Web History can get you around the vagueness part. It has more that once helped me recall something along the lines of "What was that search result 3 items down from last week.."

https://history.google.com/history/

I know quite a few people have this turned off due to some perceived "creepy" factor, but personally I cannot recommend it enough.

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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by Wingman4l7 on Monday November 18, 2013 @11:48PM (#6759331)
Especially since you can't bookmark everything, not knowing what you're going to want to refer to in the future.
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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by mikeash on Monday November 18, 2013 @11:50PM (#6759344)
Or rather you can bookmark everything, but the resulting list is nearly useless. I used to have a massive collection of bookmarks that I never referred to because it was far too large to actually use. Plus half the links had gone stale.
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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by jmpe on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @06:28AM (#6760466)
I'd like to suggest adopting something akin to the Dewey decimal system for your bookmarks. You don't have to create folders and subfolders but just prepend the number to the bookmark title. That way they get ordered in an alphabetic list.
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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by Wingman4l7 on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @11:23PM (#6766279)
In my experience, sorting by domain is usually enough.
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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by comrh on Monday November 18, 2013 @10:34PM (#6759106)
Interesting you would mention Reddit search because I find the opposite, that Reddit's search functionality is lacking and Google will often find it easier (could definitely be bias though).
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Re:This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and... by jlgreco on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @12:50AM (#6759518)
> I use Reddit search more when I'm doing exploratory searching hoping to land on a site I've never been before, because it serves me already vetted/reviewed sites.

In a somewhat similar way, I get a lot of good mileage out of hnsearch when investigating different technologies that I am new to.

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