Putting quotes around every single word in a google search so that google doesn't randomly ignore most of them
Putting quotes around every single word in a google search so that google doesn't randomly ignore most of them
This is getting ridiculous.
Also anyone else notice that google now censors most search results about drugs? They give you their fucking suicide hotline as the top result if you mention anything harder than weed. After that, it's all DEA and DOJ webpages, literal DARE shit, actual rehab advertisements, and massively SEO'd rehab related grifts. Good luck getting any Bluelight or Erowid pages to come up without actively searching for them nowadays.
Did you mean * completely different search * because that's what these results are
Actually Google just changed it. You gotta put three brackets on each side of each word now.
Doing all of your searches in antisemitic scare quotes because otherwise the search engine ignores your query
I used to love double quotes because that technique worked so well. Then one day I realized google was getting to be more and more like their Youtube website. Like Youtube - Google was giving me "help" that I in no way wanted. And - of course - google doesn't offer a plain vanilla search option to disable. "Helping" is forced enabled.
is there a way to search youtube videos by date range?
I don't know but at google you can use
before:and/orafter:.kangaroo attack after:2015-01-01 before:2016-01-01
So at google videos you could search for
kangaroo attack after:2015-01-01 before:2016-01-01 site:youtube.com
Oh my lord the drug stuff is beyond infuriating. If I'm looking up how to abuse a substance, giving me endless rehab ads and helplines is just gonna make me abuse drugs even harder I swear.
Google, I'm just trying to find a out if my new blood pressure meds are going to put me into a coma after my wife and I took 2.5 shots and then she said "Uh hey, TheLepidopterists, is this okay on <drug name redacted>?"
I do not need rehab clinic websites with articles about "what do I do if I can't quit heavily drinking on <redacted drug name>" I just want to know if literally any drinking is extremely dangerous. Had to ask my doctor directly to find out that it was fine as long as I wasn't drinking daily or bingeing. Spent the week in panic.
you have to use fucking Reddit to find any real information. Otherwise this is all you get:
"low blood pressure" OK here's 200 blog articles about HIGH blood pressure.
"I just took an extra pill of this drug by mistake. Is this dangerous?" OK 200 blog articles saying do not take more than it says to take. WOW
"my arm hurts" OK web MD says arm cancer would hurt.
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"how long do you have to wait to take Afrin after the 3 day period?" TAKE AFRIN ONCE EVERY 12 HOURS FOR NOT MORE THAN 3 DAYS
"no but like, I know, but is there like a cooldown period? Do I need to wait a couple weeks? A month? A year?" TAKE AFRIN ONCE EVERY 12 HOURS FOR NOT MORE THAN 3 DAYS
"Has any human being ever purchased Afrin two times during the course of their long lifespan? Is that OK to do?" TAKE AFRIN ONCE EVERY 12 HOURS FOR NOT MORE THAN 3 DAYS
Google is bad for your health. Use SearXNG.
Yandex is where it’s at, doesn’t censor anything I’ve noticed at least. Drugs and piracy ftw
I remember switching from yandex to google 10 years ago because it was way better
where did that bring you?
Having to add "reddit" to every search in the hope of getting a remotely human answer and not just 10-20 corporate/government websites rehashing the same information
When most subreddits went offline last year, google became absolutely, profoundly useless. That really exposed this issue to a lot of people who actually hadn't noticed before. If I'm a google exec right now, I'd be looking to prop up reddit by any means necessary because at this point if reddit were to ever digg itself permanently, it'd probably take google with it.
That's a great point
The disappointing thing is that there are still some niche forums out there if you know what they're called. But they rarely show up in Google searches
I search Lemmy these days instead of reddit. Example:
laptop "join lemmy" inurl:post
I've been saying for a while now that if someone brought back the fundamental ideas of hyperlinks as an authority-confirming tool of doing search ranking via bot crawlers it's quite possible that they could end up with a better search engine. In particular because the black hats have moved on from manipulating that style of search engine due to it no longer being how Google does things.
I think the most irritating thing is the recency bias Google has now. Sometimes the 15 year old page on a given topic is just better, and should still be the top result on a topic. Google incentivises the entire web to rehash itself over and over and over and over now. Churning out the same shit in different wording over and over again to chase recency bias.
I find alternative search engines to be a lot better about that stuff.
:yea:
And adding reddit to the end so I get real people’s answers
The one and only reason that reddit shouldn't yet be scourged from the internet
What, are the top results all being barely readable, AI generated spam articles and ad-sponsored or hidden marketing masquerading as reviews and blog posts not good enough for you?
Because if so, ya, that's all we got unless you tailor your search a bunch with stuff like that...
yep. enshittification in full effect.
If you use duckduckgo, you can put
!psy
Before your search to be taken directly to the psychonaut wiki page for that search term.
!psych
Directs you to the American psychological association lmao
its pretty breathtaking how much google in particular has turned to big pile of dog shit
I also really like digital repositories of libraries and such that ignore quotes and helpfully provide stuff they think you mean, extremely helpful when researching
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Why do people use Google anymore? I use DDG on a daily basis (which still censors stuff like that to a lesser degree), and Yandex or Startpage if the search includes keywords that are any more controversial than running in a wheat field.
Using the modifiers is really handy too. Like adding !w to go directly to the
wikinatopedia page or !g to see the google results. List here.Really handy when you get used to them.
I Google things like “I know you’re watching me” and “eat my ass FBI” just to keep them on notice.
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LLMs are okay if you already know the answer, because they don't have a basis for truth or a bias for source; they prioritize frequency of co-occurrence of words in the training data. They can produce very convincing and completely made-up text, or propagate "common wisdom" that isn't actually correct.
Using ChatGPT is pretty much the same as trusting one of the random AI-generated blogs poisoning the search results--which other people in this thread are complaining about the uselessness of.