Wouldn’t it cut down on search queries (and thus save resources) if I could search for “this is my phrase” rather than rawdogging it as an unbound series of words, each of which seems to be pulling up results unconnected to the other words in the phrase?
There are only 2 reasons I can think of why a website’s search engine lacks this incredibly basic functionality:
- The site wants you to spend more time there, seeing more ads and padding out their engagement stats.
- They’re just too stupid to know that these sorts of bare-bones search engines are close to useless, or they just don’t think it’s worth the effort. Apathetic incompetence, basically.
Is there a sound financial or programmatic reason for running a search engine which has all the intelligence of a turnip?
Cheers!
HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Because business majors decided a search engines primary job was actually to serve you ads rather than to help you search for things
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, even fucking linkedin can’t make the difference between C, C++ and C#
joyjoy@lemm.ee 3 months ago
So basically to find a good job, you should learn all 3.