Recently I saw a meme or post or tweet that I can’t find anymore. The gist was: In the 2000s, search engines were arcane tools which could only be used competently by few select people. Nowadays this has changed. Not because people have gotten smarter, but because search engines were dumbed down so much that it’s impossible to use them competently anymore.
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finthechat@kbin.social 11 months ago
I am both joking and being serious when I say this: the engine doesn't matter, it's a skill issue.
bleistift2@feddit.de 11 months ago
Plopp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Right? I feel the same about much of software design as well. Been a computer nerd my whole life and it’s never been more difficult to use them competently than it currently is. Incredibly frustrating.
Doolbs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I use Google a lot, and I don’t have any problems finding relevant results. But, then again again I do a lot of site searches: site:edu, site: gov. Or, even narrowing down more doing a site search like: site:jstor.org; a lot better than being SEO blinded by doing a general Google search.
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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not 2010. Google has r