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>Search "Order of the Fly" >YouTube returns "Flight of the Navigator" >Good job, but very wrong
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:03:19 UTC from web-
@candlescribus Youtube is in analysis mode on phaleon.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:04:25 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin I could swear that's a Flight of the Navigator reference but google tells me I might have made it up.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:05:33 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Maybe it's just extremely obscure.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:06:15 UTC from web-
@candlescribus No, I'm sure Phaleon was the planet.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:07:31 UTC from web
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@candlescribus And this is why Google is ruining their search engine in my opinion. Stupid users will write down "door" when they mean "window", but if I'm looking for a window I don't want god-damn results about doors. DuckDuckGo is becoming increasingly efficient for me, and Google increasingly less efficient.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:06:46 UTC from web-
@omni I've been using Goodsearch since I learned about it, not sure how its results compare in a study but it's good enough for me and donates to charity for each search. So, other than YT being insane, I'm not that hip to what Google's been doing. By which I guess I'm actually saying "I have nothing to say, but let me spend 400 characters or so conveying the nothing which I don't have to say." XD
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:09:10 UTC from web -
@omni When has Google's search engine ever done that? It works without a hitch for me.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:11:35 UTC from StatusNet Android-
@redenchilada It does it all the time now. It's dreadful.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:12:33 UTC from web-
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:14:20 UTC from StatusNet Android-
@redenchilada You're giving a good example of it doing that. You search "window" and it looks for "Windows" as well, even though that wasn't your search term.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:15:10 UTC from web-
@omni As far as the engine's concerned, "windows" is a plural of "window". Technology will never be perfect enough to get exactly what you're looking for as the first result if you give it a vague term like that.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:17:40 UTC from StatusNet Android-
@redenchilada Yes, but did you look for "windows"? No, you didn't, but it still forces you to search for it as well. That's what I mean, no more and no less, and I find that quite annoying as it makes my search less precise than I plan it out to be.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:19:08 UTC from web-
@omni "Windows" means more than one window. Including results for "windows" as well as "window" gives much more useful information to the client. The slight noise that results is a small price to pay. Fuzzy matching such as that will always be viable as long as there is ambiguity in the language.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:21:48 UTC from StatusNet Android-
@redenchilada I personally disagree and think it doesn't improve my search, just like I think bubbling doesn't improve my search either, but I accept your opinion regarding that as it being helpful or not is more a case of personal preference than a real fact, I believe.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:24:32 UTC from web
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@omni You do know you can stop that, right? The aliasing is a god send in my honest opinion. I often don't know the name of something os I just search for something related and usually find it. xD
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:22:03 UTC from web-
@minti http://i.imm.io/GORE.png (lol the random name for the image was gore. gg.)
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:25:16 UTC from web-
@minti looking for window gore? you creepy
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Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:26:21 UTC from web
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@minti Wait, that "" actually works for you? I could've sworn it didn't always work for me... How bizarre...
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:28:55 UTC from web-
@omni Quotes means "exact match", you can combine it with keywords too, and negatives. "window" -windows wine
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:29:35 UTC from web
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@minti I can? Oh well, I've got so used to DuckDuckGo and their awesome zero-click result box that I honestly don't really care about "optimising my Google experience".
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:25:17 UTC from web-
@omni protip: Google begins searching for results as soon as you type in the search box
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:26:16 UTC from StatusNet Android-
@redenchilada Still, the zero-click result box is more useful: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=random+number+between+12+and+42
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:28:14 UTC from web-
@omni My next question is "Why are you using a search engine to do math?"
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:29:20 UTC from StatusNet Android-
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:29:48 UTC from web -
@redenchilada Because it's quick and convenient. I also use it for my maths homework: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=plot+x+for+y%3Dx^2%2B4x
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:30:53 UTC from web-
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:31:21 UTC from web
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@omni ^ isn't valid!
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:31:45 UTC from web-
@minti Your face isn't valid!
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:34:14 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin YOU LIE
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:34:43 UTC from web-
@minti Oh yeah
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:35:50 UTC from web
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@omni That's ridiculous. I use a calculator to calculate.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:31:36 UTC from StatusNet Android-
@redenchilada On a more serious note, seeing how Wikipedia is what I use most often, this is of infinite use: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cat
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:33:19 UTC from web-
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:33:39 UTC from web
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Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:34:04 UTC from web-
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:35:20 UTC from web
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@omni This has been in existence for over 4 years now. I use to use it in school. xD
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:35:54 UTC from web-
@minti That box on the right that says "See results about Cat"? I don't believe that's been there for over 4 years, otherwise I must've stumbled upon it earlier, especially because I still used Google all the time 4 years ago.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:39:10 UTC from web
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@omni Although I will admit, the random number thing is REALLY cool. xD
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:39:43 UTC from web -
@omni Oh THAT. Yeah no that's newish it seems.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:40:17 UTC from web
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@omni Man, look at all those results for "caterpillar" in your search for "cat"
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:34:43 UTC from StatusNet Android-
@redenchilada Well, at least it isn't looking for "FLAC" when I type in "320kbps", like what happened to @yodelerty. I do realize I've taken a pretty terribly bad example with a search to "window", though. Really, really bad one. Oh well :(
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:38:15 UTC from web
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@omni Yeah. Google is a lot more powerful if you use it's features rather than just typing random keywords. I'm an advocat of finding exactly what I want on Google, lol. I tried DuckDuckGo and almost cried cause it took me maybe 5 pages to get what I want every single time. xD
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:26:22 UTC from web-
@minti DuckDuckGo took a moment for me to get used to, but in general I get the results I want quicker with it than with Google now, especially because I know how to use the zero-click box. Sometimes I do end up having to go to Google, but in most cases DuckDuckGo helps me out perfectly.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:30:01 UTC from web-
@omni To each their own, I guess. xD Different search engines work differently!
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:31:02 UTC from web
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@redenchilada The difference between window and door is obviously an extreme non-true example, but Google quite often doesn't search for the terms you enter but the terms it THINKS you meant to enter. Just try a random search and look at the bold words in the search results, and compare them with the words you searched for.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:13:26 UTC from web-
@omni So that's why "FLAC" was bolded when I searched for "320kbps" while I was looking for an album.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:15:30 UTC from StatusNet iPhone-
@yodelerty And such a mix is exactly why I think this is bad, instead of good, as 320kbps obviously would not refer to a FLAC file, but most likely to an MP3 file. But yes, exactly.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:16:36 UTC from web-
@omni Yeah, I was looking for a CD rip since artists signed to major labels usually don't have lossless versions of their albums floating around.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:18:17 UTC from StatusNet iPhone
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@omni Whenever it does that to me it gives me the pption to disregard its guessing and go with exactly what I searched. The guessing feature is handy when I actually don't know the name of what I'm looking for.
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:15:52 UTC from StatusNet Android-
@redenchilada I'm pretty sure it isn't giving you the option to not search for "windows" right now, even though you typed "window".
Friday, 05-Oct-12 21:17:07 UTC from web
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