It just occurred to me that this ability to communicate with a search engine, that everyone used to call Google-fu, was exactly this! It didn’t already know (or think it knew) what you were getting at, and it’s took some practice to figure out how to finesse the results.
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Sheeple@lemmy.world 5 months agoThe only downside of DDG is that it doesn’t have a decade or two of algorithm data to personalise your searches and sort of “learn” what you mean with certain terms.
Not like I miss it too much. It’s just a mild culture shock to suddenly having to be more clear with my searches
jennwiththesea@lemmy.world 5 months ago
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 months ago
You mean the upside is it doesn’t track every behavioral trait? I can live with that
Scrollone@feddit.it 5 months ago
That’s a good thing, in my opinion. I miss when Google results were the same for everyone.