What if the answer is there but google refused to include it in your search results until you saw enough ads?
Stfu! Don’t give them ideas!
I have a strong suspicion that’s already happening.
Someone patent this so we can sue anyone who tries this shit
‘Drink verification can’
Anime source?
Edit: nvm, found it.
Actual edit: Apparently I’m slow with the joke. K-On! Manga about high school music club.
You are not the only one, trust me. Google just went to shit in the last years, so it’s harder to find what you are looking for.
Yes that is what I thought too. Google is still good for looking up movies and games and such, but for tech stuff and shopping it has noticably declined.
I’m currently trying out the first 300 free searches with Kagi. It’s only been a day but it’s already looking like I’m going to subscribe.
Remember when you got good at Google and you started to notice that you could find what you needed better than most other people? It’s a bit like that and it’s refreshing.
How does it compare to other meta search engines that are free?
You’ve just made me realize I haven’t really evaluated any others.
IIRC Startpage is one of them? I might have used that once a long while ago but I can’t say I’ve given the others a fair shake yet.
I like SearXNG
For testing, do you just use one of the listed public instances? I guess ultimately it would be best to self-host.
Yes and yes!
Kagi is a payed search engine service that has worked well for me so far
It’s surprising how useful ChatGpt is in these situations. Honestly, it’s a great general purpose search engine.
It is nice to generate generalizable code examples, to give me clues how stuff works. I find that my work (marine biogeochemistry) is obscure enough that there’s a certain level where I am still on my own. Which is a good sign for my future employability!
This is why Satya Nadella said he could make Google dance.
If your work is bleeding edge enough, even ChatGPT won’t be of help since it’s not in their training dataset.
Yeah and it won’t tell you that it hasn’t seen this pattern before. It will just make things up out of the blue which seem like they might be correct.
Stay away from ChatGPT for bleeding edge things.
It’s still useful when it’s wrong because it can give you the jist of what should be done. If it uses a library or function that doesn’t exist, you’ll still be informed as to what it was intending for the process at that point. I’ve often gone and just replaced the made-up code with custom code that does the same thing.
What’s worse is googling a specific thing and having the results be just chock full of generic copy pasted thing with similar name
True story. I was looking for an answer to an obscure problem and found it in a 10-year-old stackoverflow post. Then I looked more closely at the author…
Hey! Me from 10 years ago, stop being such a smart ass! It’s obnoxious.
This happens to me more than I care to admit. I told a coworker about a Gitlab CI issue that I’d seen a few years back and hadn’t had any action. I looked up the link to share it. Me; I opened it. Brain failing me, I had forgotten it was my issue.
Or when you’re having a problem with a piece of accounting software that nobody has ever had, so you call in for phone support, and they’ve never had it, but they can reproduce it on their side, find a solution, and thank you very much for letting them know.
Ohh I had a similar experience with a quite big open source project (~10k stars on GitHub). Posted an issue, it’s obscure enough even the lead maintainer comes in to help and still got stuck unable to fix the issue.
The worst is windows always giving “unknown error” with a code, and when you google the code you try stuff for like an hour just for every website you check to be useless, and at the end you just needed to put a password on the other computers file share, but why would it tell you that?
Any one else getting this crash? Edit: Don’t worry guys I fixed it
I’ve had that happen to me in a couple of pretty obscure cases, fuck it’s irritating. “WHAT SECRET KNOWLEDGE DO YOU HOLD, YOU FUCK‽ TELL US”
Remember kids: If you find a solution to a problem nobody on Google (or your search engine of choice) seems to has, put it as a blog post on your site!
Or you can ask on SO. Then close it with “nvm, fixed”.
This is the way
Or you can explain it to a SO until you realise what’s wrong yourself
A pet or rubber duck will do if you don’t have a SO handy
Or you can explain it to a SO
Yeah that’s usually the expression they end up with by the end
Or the only person who phrases your issue this way) so many times I’ve found out that I just state my problem in an unusual way
That’s one area where LLMs can come in handy. If you describe something, they can usually come out with what you were thinking about in another, maybe more correct way, then you search what they gave you
You just need to spend a few hours trying weirder and unique ways to frame the issue and you might find the answer.
Somebody has to be the first one.
Or: Plenty of people have the problem, but nobody has figured it out.
And: Stack Overflow agrees that this is a dumb thing to want to do, anyway.
Or it’s a bug that was reported 5 years ago with 165 votes and somehow still not fixed
time to learn assembly *cracks knuckles*
Usually that’s about when I
stracethe process before running it throughgdb…
