• queermunist she/her
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    111 year ago

    I remember when Google used to be perfectly functional as long as you knew the right search tools. Now it thinks it knows what I’m searching for better than I do, and that almost always means pointing me towards something someone paid for lol

    • @Alkider@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      Is advanced searching any better? I wouldn’t know now because searx but when I used it before it helped to keep the results focused.

      • queermunist she/her
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        41 year ago

        It’s better, but sometimes google will decide you didn’t really mean to type the string inside the quotation marks. Advanced search tools used to be rock solid!

    • @I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.ml
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      21 year ago

      God help you if whatever you’re searching for has key words in any way related to a big news story. Even trying to restrict the date doesn’t seem to help.