Not just that but it is objectively worse. You can type something into (insert search engine of choice), with quotation marks and boolean operators and such and it still will flood the first page of results with useless information.
Add on top of that that some pages of multi-million dollar corporations just straight up don't work or take forever to load.
There is no excuse for how pathetic the internet is nowadays yet here we are.
my ability to use strong search terms is meaningless now. I used to be a search-god and now I know that the best way to get a "result" is to use natural language question rather than an optimized search term. I miss being able to find really good information if you have really good search skills. Now it's always Quora, Wikipedia and several shopping sites.
God yes this, this so much. Search engines are so bad now if you know what you are searching for. SEO has really crapped up the Internet too.
For technical issues, it used to be you could google a problem (an error message, a symptom, a programming language issue) and you would almost always get either a manual or the exact thing you were looking for.
Now you find 1000 "how to XXXX" pages that aren't actually related and are just advertising clickbait. You get 15 minutes youtube videos that maybe--MAYBE--have some good content in there somewhere. etc. MAybe you're really lucky and you find a stackoverflow or reddit page with someone with the same issue, and once you scroll past the first 50 karma whore answers "did u try rebooting?" you find a single poster who has the solution.
It drives me crazy that if I google a function -- e.g., "php strlen" -- php.net is not the top hit 100% of the time. There's w3schools, geeksforgeeks, tutorials.com, etc.
Not just that but it is objectively worse. You can type something into (insert search engine of choice), with quotation marks and boolean operators and such and it still will flood the first page of results with useless information.
Add on top of that that some pages of multi-million dollar corporations just straight up don't work or take forever to load.
There is no excuse for how pathetic the internet is nowadays yet here we are.
my ability to use strong search terms is meaningless now. I used to be a search-god and now I know that the best way to get a "result" is to use natural language question rather than an optimized search term. I miss being able to find really good information if you have really good search skills. Now it's always Quora, Wikipedia and several shopping sites.
God yes this, this so much. Search engines are so bad now if you know what you are searching for. SEO has really crapped up the Internet too.
For technical issues, it used to be you could google a problem (an error message, a symptom, a programming language issue) and you would almost always get either a manual or the exact thing you were looking for.
Now you find 1000 "how to XXXX" pages that aren't actually related and are just advertising clickbait. You get 15 minutes youtube videos that maybe--MAYBE--have some good content in there somewhere. etc. MAybe you're really lucky and you find a stackoverflow or reddit page with someone with the same issue, and once you scroll past the first 50 karma whore answers "did u try rebooting?" you find a single poster who has the solution.
It drives me crazy that if I google a function -- e.g., "php strlen" -- php.net is not the top hit 100% of the time. There's w3schools, geeksforgeeks, tutorials.com, etc.