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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

but i use ddg btw

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The number of people who simply don’t know how to effectively use a web search is absurd. If you can sit down to a search engine and find what you’re looking for within 5 minutes or less, you’re probably the go-to troubleshooting person for your family. The general population is almost dangerously tech-illiterate.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know what pissed me off more, watching my mom write a book into the google search bar because she refuses to just use the key words or the fact that it gave her the exact info she wanted immediately despite being somewhat niche.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, using a more complex search does improve results...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Using a different example, would "apple pie recipe" be less complex of a search than "What do I need to cook an apple pie and how do I do it?"

Edit - As far as a search engine cares.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

AFAIK the two are identical, and words such as "how", "do" and "what" are mostly ignored by the engine. The only content words in both are "apple" "pie" and "recipe"/"cook".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

depends on kind of complexity

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Work with tech with the elderly.

God love a web search. The amount of people who think I am magic because of it is too high.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of genz get it pretty intuitively because they grow up with Google searching. I didn't realise until recently how much more important it is you understand the answers than find them especially if you're getting a niche error.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep people who try to copy paste code without understanding it are not programmers.

Even though, I admit I do that myself with new languages. I tried to build a Rust async application and it worked but didn't properly work... I just put code in there and got something running.

But now I went back and read the docs and realized I'm doing things wrongly.