▲ 4 ▼ You cant even avoid irrelevant results with "site:" anymore (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago by rosenjcb@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 13 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) Why people use google in this day and age? 🤷♂️ permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] theragu40@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) I hope you are asking that rhetorically. But if the question is serious, its because very many people grew up with google and got really good at using it. Got dependent on the certain idiosyncrasies of how Google presents its results. Got entangled in multiple other google services that make results more relevant. I have my entire career because I was (and am) better than a lot of people at googling things. I hate what Google has become and I do have DDG as my primary search tool on my phone now. But it's really difficult to completely jettison google search and I do still use it fairly regularly. Even though they seem insistent on making their results as trash as possible. If anything its at least pushed me to start thinking of search engines as tools, and that regularly using more than one might be a good thing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Yoz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) I don't use anything that's made or based on the US. Serious redflag! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world -8 points 3 years ago "americabad" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) I hope you are asking that rhetorically. But if the question is serious, its because very many people grew up with google and got really good at using it. Got dependent on the certain idiosyncrasies of how Google presents its results. Got entangled in multiple other google services that make results more relevant. I have my entire career because I was (and am) better than a lot of people at googling things. I hate what Google has become and I do have DDG as my primary search tool on my phone now. But it's really difficult to completely jettison google search and I do still use it fairly regularly. Even though they seem insistent on making their results as trash as possible. If anything its at least pushed me to start thinking of search engines as tools, and that regularly using more than one might be a good thing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Yoz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) I don't use anything that's made or based on the US. Serious redflag! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world -8 points 3 years ago "americabad" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Yoz@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago (1 child) I don't use anything that's made or based on the US. Serious redflag! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] lemmyshmemmy@lemmy.world -8 points 3 years ago "americabad" permalink fedilink source parent