Judith Butlerian Jihad

@xanindigo.bsky.social

ME: So, you know what the quote marks mean? GOOGLE: Yes. ME: And you're going to search for all of these words? GOOGLE: Yes. ME: I don't want results on anything else. GOOGLE: Ok. ME: Good. What did you find? GOOGLE: lol i ignored all your words here's a fucking shower curtain lmao

Jul 19, 2023 at 14:30 UTC

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Ralf @ralfbauerfeind.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 05, 2024 at 11:52 UTC

Did you use single or double quotes? Single quotes are just ignored... Google has bad glasses (goggles), so they can't see single quotes. 😂 And don't forget about the powerful negative sign. 😉

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His Royal Huwness @litterygeniarse.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

Have you found "verbatim"? It's not great but if you do a search look under "all results" and tick "Verbatim" option it improves your results marginally. But only for that search. You have to redo it each time.

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ShinigamiDad "Designated Dingus" @marktspence.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 19, 2023 at 16:06 UTC

[Patrick_Star_with_wallets.GIF]

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Madame Decadent Sneezy-Bottom @darklyadapted.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 16:57 UTC

oh, THIS

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Jef Pearlman @jefatlaw.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 05, 2024 at 19:24 UTC

I do feel like this problem is getting worse. Recently, it's very common for me to google a two-word phrase in quotes only to have it give me a huge set of results that don't contain the phrase. (It used to at least say, "sorry, I couldn't find that so I tried again without your quotes.")

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 04, 2024 at 23:40 UTC

It's infuriating. Makes it harder to teach my students about good search...

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Sandeha Lynch @sandehalynch.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 15:09 UTC

What's the distance between Cairo and Damascus? "Would you like to do a local search?"

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 21, 2023 at 17:37 UTC

GOGGLE: But this synonym tho!!!

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OracleClyde @oracleclyde.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 17:05 UTC

YES. I just noticed this yesterday. No matter what I did, Google kept trying to “help” me by bringing up something not even in the same species of what I was searching for.

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H.K MacLean @hkmaclean.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 17:00 UTC

Me: Google, does the Mandalay Bay hotel treat their animals well? Google: YES, YOU CAN BRING YOUR DOG HERE. DOG FRIENDLY. YAY DOG ANIMAL. Okay, that wasn’t my best use of search terms, I admit that. But come on! (They are AZA accredited, which is what I should have asked I suppose)

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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 05, 2024 at 01:22 UTC

I remember when one could craft a perfect Google search. Oh, the year was 1778...

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Dagsly @dagsly.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 04, 2024 at 18:59 UTC

Sponsored links are destroying the usability of the web. Jesus Christ it is impossible to find just about anything.

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Kyr @kyrinn.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 19, 2023 at 15:34 UTC

Nothing strengthens my faith in a company like their own product making me feel like I leaned all their search operators for no fucking reason

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Roger Grow @rogergrow.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 04, 2024 at 18:57 UTC

One compound word: DuckDuckGo

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Marie @mariecalaisart.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 19:52 UTC

I live Sunshine Coast Queensland & near me used to be good search. Lately have being randomly getting other towns in NSW & Victoria 2640 or 3658 kilometres away. PS never try Yellow Pages search totally ridiculous for years.

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Aoife “Fe” Baker @vivaciousvandal.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 04, 2024 at 19:34 UTC

I searched yesterday for “harbor freight drawers” to find something that I’ve found before using those same terms. Only stuff from Uline showed up, so I added “-uline” and got… all uline still. Google has rendered itself useless now.

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Cesare Cuzzola @cesare.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 18:24 UTC

Well what we need to do now is much simpler and it involves finding a very obscure Discord about your topic, joining with an invite that hopefully hasn't expired, and then crawling through a list of randomly pinned messages until you give up

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renée 🧶⛲️📚🏳️‍🌈🎼🪩 @mrrb.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 04, 2024 at 20:12 UTC

OH MY GOD YES sorry not sorry for shouting because google is now failing to recognize my google-fu 😡

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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com
[ View ] Mar 04, 2024 at 18:58 UTC

It's what you all get for having disrespected AltaVista.

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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 18:31 UTC

Someone may have already posted but I've found it helpful:

udm14.com: An easy-to-use shortcut for an AI-free Google search. (Try it!) udm14.com

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Anne Billson @annebillson.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 04, 2024 at 22:57 UTC

Also Google: I don't know if I have anything relating to that word you just googled, but here's a load of stuff relating to another word that has some of the same letters.

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BionicDance @bionicdance.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 05, 2024 at 11:24 UTC

Even worse when you try to exclude words.

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Cecelia Alexander @aspidoscelis.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 04, 2024 at 20:28 UTC

I didn't know shower curtains could.

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Boo-Rian Making Comics @necroknights.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 04, 2024 at 18:20 UTC

*6 months later* “Stop showing me ads for shower curtains!!!”

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Jim Myers(he/him) @jimmolemaster.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 18:22 UTC

And some chatbot algorithmic gibberish showing how I linked your search to the shower curtain

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Schroedingercat @schroedingercat.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 16:54 UTC

Ok I thought it was just me. Why does it do this????

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michael @radplanets.bsky.social
[ View ] May 31, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

click on “Search Tools” and switch it to “Verbatim”

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 19, 2023 at 23:23 UTC

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@patter.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 05, 2024 at 10:38 UTC

The googling for very specific tech documentation, find me anything about this exact error message Google: "Ok, but have you considered: Penguins?"

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Saul Shapiro @sauldk.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 04, 2024 at 19:05 UTC

1. I remember when G accepted the boolean "+" instead of the wretched quote matks. 2. I remember, I think it was the old Yahoo search engine, which in advanced mode listed terms that showed up along with your search, and you could mark yes, no, or neutral and refine etc.

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