I search for specs or schematics or howto's and I get "BUY ME!" crap links.
I search for datasheets on chips and I get junk china sites claiming to be able to get any part I want. (fake ones from china, sure...)
its really hard to get real content from a google search now. and we've been slowly conditioned (cooking the frog) to accept that the search results are dumbed down more and more over the years.
google's day in the sun is over. they do have name recognition but no one really belives, now, that their search is any better than any other.
the auto-complete, bouncing text and blinking things only drive the nails in the coffin down harder.
when you need a pre-processor to a search site, you know they lost their mojo.
I am no hater of Google, and neither am I an ill-wisher. We do need an online shopping catalog, and if Google can be good at that, then more power to them. They do, however, seem to be losing ground in the war with rank gamers, and they are beset from all sides by narrowly specialized competitors who index tiny portions of Internet, but do a way better job at that.
Filter out keywords. Do your search with: -buy -purchase -price -shop
It would be really nice if shopping sites could all be on.com and useful informational stuff could all be on non.com domains, but that's as likely to happen as unicorns flying out of my butt.
I actually rarely ever type anything in Google's search box. I use a Quicksearch set up in Firefox instead and just type "g " in the address bar. It just occurred to me I can add the "-buy -purchase -price -shop" as part of the bookmark the quicksearch runs off of and get those terms added to pretty much all my searches automatically now with no change in my searching behavior. The bookmark simply becomes http://www.google.com/search?&q=%25s+-buy+-purchase+-price+-shop [google.com]
- Excuse me, where can I find the art museum? - Yes-yes. Art is good. Buy this vase. Ten dorrars. Very good. - No, I don't want to buy anything, I just want to know how to get to the museum. - Yes-yes, the museum. Postcards. One dorrar. - Listen, if I buy this postcard, would you tell me where the museum is? - You want postcard? Please, choose. Also look. Good luck charm. Five dorrars.
one of the newer introductions, the live previews, also makes it less elegant looking, and you'll be treated to crappy graphics just by moving your mouse around the screen.
maybe they forgot why they got popular in the first place: all the established search engines sold out and started making their search engines into "portals" rather than search engines.
messing with search results this openly though.. that is a slippery path.
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Google search is basically a shopping catalog now. Here is where you go when you want INFORMATION:
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shopping shopping shopping!
no kidding.
I search for specs or schematics or howto's and I get "BUY ME!" crap links.
I search for datasheets on chips and I get junk china sites claiming to be able to get any part I want. (fake ones from china, sure...)
its really hard to get real content from a google search now. and we've been slowly conditioned (cooking the frog) to accept that the search results are dumbed down more and more over the years.
google's day in the sun is over. they do have name recognition but no one really belives, now, that their search is any better than any other.
the auto-complete, bouncing text and blinking things only drive the nails in the coffin down harder.
when you need a pre-processor to a search site, you know they lost their mojo.
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Filter out keywords. Do your search with: -buy -purchase -price -shop
It would be really nice if shopping sites could all be on .com and useful informational stuff could all be on non .com domains, but that's as likely to happen as unicorns flying out of my butt.
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Wow, thanks.
I actually rarely ever type anything in Google's search box. I use a Quicksearch set up in Firefox instead and just type "g " in the address bar. It just occurred to me I can add the "-buy -purchase -price -shop" as part of the bookmark the quicksearch runs off of and get those terms added to pretty much all my searches automatically now with no change in my searching behavior. The bookmark simply becomes http://www.google.com/search?&q=%25s+-buy+-purchase+-price+-shop [google.com]
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This is a really useful tip! I just set my bookmark to https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%25s+-buy+-purchase+-price+-shop [google.com] and it works much better than regular Google searches.
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Often it is easier to whitelist than blacklist. Instead of trying to block sites selling stuff try adding "pdf" or the name of the manufacturer.
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It's like talking to a greedy Chinese shop owner.
- Excuse me, where can I find the art museum?
- Yes-yes. Art is good. Buy this vase. Ten dorrars. Very good.
- No, I don't want to buy anything, I just want to know how to get to the museum.
- Yes-yes, the museum. Postcards. One dorrar.
- Listen, if I buy this postcard, would you tell me where the museum is?
- You want postcard? Please, choose. Also look. Good luck charm. Five dorrars.
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one of the newer introductions, the live previews, also makes it less elegant looking, and you'll be treated to crappy graphics just by moving your mouse around the screen.
maybe they forgot why they got popular in the first place: all the established search engines sold out and started making their search engines into "portals" rather than search engines.
messing with search results this openly though.. that is a slippery path.
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I search for specs or schematics or howto's
THIS! Geocities was a *really* good place to find technical stuff and schematics of electronic projects.
Nowadays the majority of stuff available in the web is ads...
*grump* *grump*
See you, I'll be in Gopher.