marurun wrote:And that's not even accounting the decline in search accuracy (in favor of base appeasement) seen in recent years in Google and Bing.
Limewater wrote:marurun wrote:And that's not even accounting the decline in search accuracy (in favor of base appeasement) seen in recent years in Google and Bing.
Can you clarify what you mean by "base appeasement" in this context?
marurun wrote:Limewater wrote:marurun wrote:And that's not even accounting the decline in search accuracy (in favor of base appeasement) seen in recent years in Google and Bing.
Can you clarify what you mean by "base appeasement" in this context?
The goal of the Google search engine is to provide you with search results that are interesting, and to try to always return something. Google frequently drops search terms and performs fuzzy matches. It's trying so hard to be "helpful" and provide searchers with something, anything, that it sacrifices actual accuracy in results. I am constantly frustrated by searches where I should receive nothing or very few results and instead I get lots of completely unrelated content because Google is playing fast and loose with my search terms. Google also has, over the years, removed tools to perform advanced searches, by removing some boolean logic or treating it as optional.
o.pwuaioc wrote: The only thing Google still does decent is Gmail. Everything else that used to be good is actually garbage. Besides the problems with Search, Drive is the slowest at uploading, Maps is terribly slow at loading and contains numerous inaccuracies (and complicit in population displacement and gentrification), Chrome is a memory hog, Hangouts can't figure out what it is, Calendar and Duo lacks functionality, the Pixel is overpriced and underdelivers, Books' new layout just sucks, even their logos are bad.
Email is the last thing I still use by Google, and I only continue since I've been using my address for years. But I've already started moving my stuff over to other addresses, so soon even that will be no more.
marurun wrote:I'm a systems librarian and given how much work I invest in the tools we provide so that our users can find information for themselves, these "automated" tools that propose to answer questions for people are laughably ill-designed and ill-equipped to do just that. And that's not even accounting the decline in search accuracy (in favor of base appeasement) seen in recent years in Google and Bing.
marurun wrote:The goal of the Google search engine is to provide you with search results that are interesting, and to try to always return something. Google frequently drops search terms and performs fuzzy matches. It's trying so hard to be "helpful" and provide searchers with something, anything, that it sacrifices actual accuracy in results. I am constantly frustrated by searches where I should receive nothing or very few results and instead I get lots of completely unrelated content because Google is playing fast and loose with my search terms. Google also has, over the years, removed tools to perform advanced searches, by removing some boolean logic or treating it as optional.
Limewater wrote:I think my only big, regular frustration with search engines is when I start looking for information on some obscure technical problem I am trying to solve but I just get drowned in thousands and thousands of results with the solution to a much simpler problem that involves all of the same key words.
RCBH928 wrote:What have you replaced them with?
Gmail = ProtonMail (there is fastmail, mailbox.org, startmail, fastmail)
Drive = I don't really use it but a little bit iCloud but filen.io and mega.io I hear are good. There is dropbox and Box.com
Maps = I think the best maps are Google maps but duckduckgo uses Apple maps, OsmAnd and MagicEarth.
Chrome = Brave (Chrome without Google code) and FireFox.
YouTube= utreon, Odysee, Rumble... No one as good as YouTube but its an option.
Hangouts seems to be discontinued.
opa wrote:My browsers: chrome (windows), chromium (linux), duckduckgo (mobile). Chrome is a resource hog but I put up with it for now. I don't use Windows a whole lot.
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