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Had a talk with a retired librarian at the bus stop that made me rethink how I search for anything online
She told me most people don't know how to use quotation marks and Boolean operators anymore, and that's why we keep getting wrong answers - has anyone else noticed their Google results getting worse since they dropped the old search tricks?
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rodriguez.mia10d ago
Read a piece in Wired last year that said the same thing - people forgot how to search properly and now we blame the search engines for giving us junk.
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Completely agree with her. I started using quotes around exact phrases again last month and it cut my search time in half. My results used to be full of vague AI summaries but now I actually get pages that match what Im looking for.
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the_eric10d ago
Yeah totally agree with what colescott said about cutting search time in half. I started doing the exact same thing a few weeks back and it's wild how much better my results are now. It's honestly embarrassing that I forgot such a simple trick existed.
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