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0 pointsuserbinator4y ago0 comments

10 or 15 years ago, I could actually find what I wanted without it second-guessing my queries and rewriting them into irrelevance.

Now it's absolutely useless for the hard-to-find information that you most need a search engine for. That's not "objectively better" at all.

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mda4y ago

I wish you could give us a single example.

userbinatorOP4y ago

IC part numbers. Service manuals for various equipment (now all you get are sites which may or may not have one, but are willing to collect your $$$). Error codes (filled with pages of results for a different code).

mda4y ago

A solid example? I search for some of these all the time don't remember any particular issue compared to past.

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0 pointsuserbinator4y ago0 comments

10 or 15 years ago, I could actually find what I wanted without it second-guessing my queries and rewriting them into irrelevance.

Now it's absolutely useless for the hard-to-find information that you most need a search engine for. That's not "objectively better" at all.

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mda4y ago

I wish you could give us a single example.

userbinatorOP4y ago

mda4y ago

A solid example? I search for some of these all the time don't remember any particular issue compared to past.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse