This has been enraging me for a good couple of years. At least now they helpfully strike through the search terms not included in the result so you can see upfront exactly how useless it is. Most of my last google searches have "quote" "marks" "around" "every "word or phrase" in a vain effort to search for what I actually want to search for - it still decides I want something else.
― kinder, Thursday, 10 May 2018 09:11 (seven years ago)
Verbatim mode is what you're both looking for. You can get 'default to verbatim' plugins for firefox and chrome. I find I want to use it 80% of the time, sometimes I want to include alternative spelling and some words missing, but usually I don't.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 10 May 2018 09:17 (seven years ago)
hooray for the wonderful march of progress that has led us to a search engine that you have to hack to search for what you want
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 10 May 2018 09:21 (seven years ago)
while it quietly pockets all your personal data
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 09:24 (seven years ago)
What I really want is Verbatim mode + obvious synonyms and alternative spellings + a suggestion if I've misspelled anything.
My real problem now is with google image search, which I now need to hack to even download an image, surely the whole point of it. Video search has never really worked.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 10 May 2018 09:31 (seven years ago)
weirdly, bing's video search is pretty good
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 09:32 (seven years ago)
oh god GIS has been ruined for life but i'm confused how come in an era where bandwidth feels more abundant than ever before why more and more douchebuckets seem intent on preventing their pics from being lovingly sampled/detourned
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 10 May 2018 09:38 (seven years ago)
i'm not trying to rip-off your creative endeavour people i just want to post a sarky jpeg on a Turrican thread
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, May 10, 2018 11:21 AM (twenty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is so so otm. I had such a thorough course on using google (really) in the late nineties at uni, and I could find anything I want, exclude stuff etc. Then google introduced their algorithm shit and nothing mattered any more.
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, May 10, 2018 11:38 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is also so so otm. ;)
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 10 May 2018 09:45 (seven years ago)
^ yes this is making me crazy too
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 10 May 2018 10:37 (seven years ago)
Officially going back to AltaVista, guys.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 May 2018 12:13 (seven years ago)
(Officially just learned that AltaVista died an ignoble death several years back. Fuck, what now.)
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 May 2018 12:14 (seven years ago)
https://askjeeves.net/
― scott seward, Thursday, 10 May 2018 12:40 (seven years ago)
http://www.dogpile.com/
don't try asking jeeves what the best search engine is people, it's not helpful
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 10 May 2018 12:46 (seven years ago)
a little bit of my adolescence just died :(
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 12:46 (seven years ago)
earlier today btw i watched my boss type 'google' into the search bar of his homepage, which is aol.com, in order to get to google to find something
this has happened several times and i think it's probably taken about three months off my lifespan
i think that's rational anger tho tbf
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 12:49 (seven years ago)
just googled aol.com cos i couldn't believe it still existed
― hepatitis groan (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 10 May 2018 12:55 (seven years ago)
This shit right here:
https://i.imgur.com/c7HEp4f.png
― pplains, Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:23 (seven years ago)
nailed it
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:23 (seven years ago)
I have to log out and clear my cookies sometimes just so Google will give me all the non-local versions of whatever asset I'm searching for.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:24 (seven years ago)
(would a private tab be easier?)
mind did used to boggle when google.com would always appear near the top of the published searches, but these days there's a combined url / search bar so who's to know? in fact, if you try and type into the google search textbox on the chrome homepage the text ends up in the 'url' bar.
― koogs, Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:40 (seven years ago)
(the text box on askjeeves has a 'google custom search' watermark on it before you type)
― koogs, Thursday, 10 May 2018 13:42 (seven years ago)
You know, I could go incognito. That's never occurred to me.
I'm looking for art to use in a story about these retirement centers. We've published stories in the past about them, so all I'm getting is the old art that I personally uploaded, along with every other photo on our site.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 May 2018 14:20 (seven years ago)
im reading ilx incognito rn
― Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 10 May 2018 16:10 (seven years ago)
You know, I know they're a necessary evil, but I kind of hate socks.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 May 2018 16:39 (seven years ago)
But think of the wonderful things I achieved as nude spock.
― Love Theme From Oh God! You Devil (Old Lunch), Thursday, 10 May 2018 17:04 (seven years ago)
trying to start a roll of toilet paper is above my pay grade apparently
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 10 May 2018 17:14 (seven years ago)
Getting tired of people moving out and the ongoing relegations. It’s like living on a construction site
― Ross, Thursday, 10 May 2018 17:46 (seven years ago)
Every bloody newsletter begging me to stay on because of the General Data Protection Regulation ('GDPR'), doing so almost exclusively in a grating 'innocent smoothie' kind of voice.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 08:57 (seven years ago)
when someone's obviously under the wrong impression or misinformed in a conversation, and you reach out with the little olive branch of "well, I sometimes get that confused with this other similar thing, myself" and instead of taking the out, they double down on their wrongness
there's an entire group of people like this at work and it vexes me
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:12 (seven years ago)
One of my best friends pronounces genre as "ge-NAIR" and I still can't tell if he's fucking with me or not.
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 00:01 (seven years ago)
the hell
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 02:52 (seven years ago)
Fucking prices in hip cafes written with one decimal point - e.g. a $6.50 sandwich? No, that costs 6.5, how vulgar to refer to actual currency.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 03:17 (seven years ago)
recipes that express vegetable amts in cups instead of how many vegetables you need1 cup onion, diced instead of 1 small onion, dicedi get sometimes exact amts are needed but for shit like spaghetti or bastardized ragus & whatnot it should not matter so much
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 03:21 (seven years ago)
its rich to complain about that when the underlying issue is that you are a continent that pretends that a "cup" is a measurement
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 08:01 (seven years ago)
three continents tbf, though the US one is 10ml smaller than their northern neighbours and the other two continents
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 08:29 (seven years ago)
we've had weighing scales since 2000 BC ffs, "cups" for non-liquid ingredients is bollox - you can't order a pint of onions.
― calzino, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 08:42 (seven years ago)
Taking sides: $6.5 sandwiches versus $3.169 gallons of gas.
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 10:55 (seven years ago)
Do some restaurants still have "the lady's menu" i.e. a menu with no prices listed? What a thing.
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 10:58 (seven years ago)
> "cups" for non-liquid ingredients is bollox
but a cup of sugar makes sense. a cup is only a bigger spoon so anything that is sensibly measured in tablespoons is fine as cups.
(maybe not honey, that would be messy)
― koogs, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 11:09 (seven years ago)
you can't order a pint of onions.
THE HELL I CAN'T
― (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ (mh), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 14:32 (seven years ago)
I've been renting out/subletting my apartment (in a completely gut renovated building) to two very close friends for over a year and a half at ~60% market rate. It's a co-op building that has an on-site superintendent and porter and neighbors above, below and around. I am in another country and I get the most absurd texts.The smoke alarm is chirpinga wire fell off the washer/dryerthe radiator pipe has been making a really loud clanking for 2 weeksthe stove is no longer ignitingthe kitchen sink has a slow leakthe bathtub has a clog etc etc.
I don't understand how people can be in their 40s and not know how to deal with these very simple things.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 15:06 (seven years ago)
Fuck ^^^
― Music is confidence (Ross), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 15:07 (seven years ago)
The one from last week is that they want to have a special birthday party in one of the shared common spaces that wasn't even open yet when I lived there, and they contacted me for the rules. The rules were sent out on their by management a few days later and my friends are surprised that they are so strict. It's like yeah, this is NY no one wants big parties in common spaces where stuff can go wrong or annoy neighbors or result in an insurance claim.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 15:18 (seven years ago)
yeah you sound pretty reasonable to me, Yerac
― Music is confidence (Ross), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 17:47 (seven years ago)
When someone goes viral on Twitter and feels obliged to post an in thread follow up like
"While you're all here please check out my Thing* and maybe give me money"
Twitch/Bandcamp/Patreon/justgiving cause of the day
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 25 May 2018 09:45 (seven years ago)
I can see why it would be annoying and have never done it myself, but when your labour of love is a constant struggle in terms of getting interest and getting paid for doing it and then some shit you've tossed off suddenly gets a massive amount of exposure, who can blame them for trying to redirect some of those eyeballs.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 25 May 2018 09:52 (seven years ago)
If any of my shit ever blows up like that, I'm gonna link everyone to this soundcloud: https://tinyurl.com/zvezgf7
― pplains, Friday, 25 May 2018 14:09 (seven years ago)
It really annoys me when I schedule an appointment at say 6:45pm but then they tell me that I have to arrive 15 minutes before my appointment. Why not just tell me that the appointment is at 6:30? I expect to have to wait a bit once I'm there anyway.
― silverfish, Monday, 28 May 2018 13:46 (seven years ago)