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What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding "reddit" or whatever internet community to the results?

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yep, Google decided it was too complicated and removed it all. Dont know how it was too complicated, people just wouldn't use it if they didn't know about it. They felt "natural language" would be more useful. Bullshit, I search for "foo and bar" it'll return me results for foo and ignore the rest

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

That's not why they ignore them. They ignore them because it is profitable.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

So google has reverted to late 90s search behavior

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago

Ssh, you’re ruining the circle jerk.

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

Too complicated for them and their optimisations, maybe?

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

This still works if you use double quotes!