Comment on Had to look this up

• ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thank you kindly for the links, I was just about to search for the Manchester Bombing, if I’m being honest I thought “The Troubles” was the name of a book or movie. I didn’t realize they gave such a non-chillant name to such a bloody conflict. Suddenly the meme makes sense though!

  Thanks again!

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  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It tends to attract negative attention if you admit there’s a civil war going on.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In the future, we’ll look back sadly on the current Times of Greatness.

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      • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        According to the White House - this is the “Golden Age”.

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• deltapi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What exactly in the above sentence would have suggested to the average person that they should Google search the troubles?
  Or are you saying any time I see a nonsensical sentence I should just stop what I’m doing and google search the whole thing?

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  • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What exactly in the above sentence would have suggested to the average person that they should Google search the troubles?

    Well, I am still under the - maybe naive - impression that people understand context.

    If one user writes about “The Troubles” (capitalised), and another mentions “the Manchester blast”, my expectation was that a person is able to put 2 and 2 together and google “The Troubles Manchester blast” at the very least.

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• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They never really did.

  Also I never really used Google. I am a duckduckgo or brave search or even startpage type of guy.

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  • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just FYI - Startpage is also using Google’s search index, so you’re kind of also “googling”.

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    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Probably why I dont really use it. Duckduckgo and brave.

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      • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Brave is also just google/chrome in another packaging.

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      • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        In general, there are two main search indexes: Google’s and Bing’s, with a bunch of smaller ones here and there.

        DDG uses Bing and Yahoo, mainly. Their own index is relatively small.

        Brave says they use their own index.

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