When Google was new It was a wonder. I could use it to help solve problems (such as identifying error codes when the servers went down), locating reveiws of products (saving me the expense of subscribing to loads of computer magazines and the time searching through them when I needed to buy something) and finding snippets of code when I needed to develop a program. As the web gets older and older there is more and more out of date information that I have to dig through. Plus when Google
As the web gets older and older there is more and more out of date information that I have to dig through.
Google does have an option to filter by age. But I'm a bit puzzled by your examples. Reviews, code samples, error messages, none of which seem to me to be terribly date dependent.
Reviews are typically for a specific product or version of product. Code snippets don't expire on date. Neither do error messages.
What can I say, I don't share your experience. Google typically hands me highly relevant results.
Perhaps this varies by region. I tend to get plenty of "proper" review sites in the top 10 results. More than enough to get the information I need, at least.
And yet Google adds less and less to my .... (Score:4, Interesting)
... productivity.
When Google was new It was a wonder. I could use it to help solve problems (such as identifying error codes when the servers went down), locating reveiws of products (saving me the expense of subscribing to loads of computer magazines and the time searching through them when I needed to buy something) and finding snippets of code when I needed to develop a program. As the web gets older and older there is more and more out of date information that I have to dig through. Plus when Google
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Google does have an option to filter by age. But I'm a bit puzzled by your examples. Reviews, code samples, error messages, none of which seem to me to be terribly date dependent.
Reviews are typically for a specific product or version of product. Code snippets don't expire on date. Neither do error messages.
What can I say, I don't share your experience. Google typically hands me highly relevant results.
Re:And yet Google adds less and less to my .... (Score:3, Insightful)
IMO, real product reviews are hard to find because of SEO. Everything else he mentioned I have no problem with.
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Perhaps this varies by region. I tend to get plenty of "proper" review sites in the top 10 results. More than enough to get the information I need, at least.