Putting quotes around every single word in a google search so that google doesn't randomly ignore most of them : chapotraphouse

[-] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 54 points 9 months ago

Did you mean * completely different search * because that's what these results are

[-] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 50 points 9 months ago

Actually Google just changed it. You gotta put three brackets on each side of each word now.

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 50 points 9 months ago

Doing all of your searches in antisemitic scare quotes because otherwise the search engine ignores your query

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 43 points 9 months ago

I used to love double quotes because that technique worked so well. Then one day I realized google was getting to be more and more like their Youtube website. Like Youtube - Google was giving me "help" that I in no way wanted. And - of course - google doesn't offer a plain vanilla search option to disable. "Helping" is forced enabled.

[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

is there a way to search youtube videos by date range?

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

I don't know but at google you can use before: and/or after:.

kangaroo attack after:2015-01-01 before:2016-01-01

So at google videos you could search for

kangaroo attack after:2015-01-01 before:2016-01-01 site:youtube.com

[-] LeopardShepherd@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago

Oh my lord the drug stuff is beyond infuriating. If I'm looking up how to abuse a substance, giving me endless rehab ads and helplines is just gonna make me abuse drugs even harder I swear.

[-] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 29 points 9 months ago

Google, I'm just trying to find a out if my new blood pressure meds are going to put me into a coma after my wife and I took 2.5 shots and then she said "Uh hey, TheLepidopterists, is this okay on ?"

I do not need rehab clinic websites with articles about "what do I do if I can't quit heavily drinking on " I just want to know if literally any drinking is extremely dangerous. Had to ask my doctor directly to find out that it was fine as long as I wasn't drinking daily or bingeing. Spent the week in panic.

[-] SerLava@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

you have to use fucking Reddit to find any real information. Otherwise this is all you get:

"low blood pressure" OK here's 200 blog articles about HIGH blood pressure.

"I just took an extra pill of this drug by mistake. Is this dangerous?" OK 200 blog articles saying do not take more than it says to take. WOW

"my arm hurts" OK web MD says arm cancer would hurt.

"ok that doesn't answer my" OK ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor. Ask a doctor.

"how long do you have to wait to take Afrin after the 3 day period?" TAKE AFRIN ONCE EVERY 12 HOURS FOR NOT MORE THAN 3 DAYS

"no but like, I know, but is there like a cooldown period? Do I need to wait a couple weeks? A month? A year?" TAKE AFRIN ONCE EVERY 12 HOURS FOR NOT MORE THAN 3 DAYS

"Has any human being ever purchased Afrin two times during the course of their long lifespan? Is that OK to do?" TAKE AFRIN ONCE EVERY 12 HOURS FOR NOT MORE THAN 3 DAYS

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

The ask a doctor shit makes me especially mad, like motherfucker, if I had any sort of timely access to a doctor do you really think I'd be asking fucking google?

[-] LeopardShepherd@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

Also you'll have much more luck and very likely better information about drugs by speaking to a pharmacist. Many doctors don't know are either hard to contact and/or have have fairly basic drug knowledge.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I have a family member who's a pharmacist, the doctors know jack shiiiiiiit about the drugs.

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Doctors still think the Naloxone in Suboxone actually prevents people from "abusing it". The patent holder fed them a bunch of bullshit decades ago about how it causes precipitated withdrawal if you snort or IV it instead of using the prescribed sublingual RoA.

But despite the universal experience of people who have snorted and IV'd it being that the Naloxone may as well be inactive due to it having a significantly lower mu-opioid receptor binding affinity than Buprenorphine, doctors still to this day insist on prescribing Suboxone instead of plain Buprenorphine, often at double the cost to the patient.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 27 points 9 months ago

Google is bad for your health. Use SearXNG.

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago

Yandex is where it’s at, doesn’t censor anything I’ve noticed at least. Drugs and piracy ftw

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 23 points 9 months ago

I remember switching from yandex to google 10 years ago because it was way better

where did that bring you? back-to-me

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 20 points 9 months ago

Yandex makes me do a stupid captcha every time that I can never fucking pass for some reason

[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

You might be a robot

[-] Magician@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

We're all bots here

[-] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

Makes my fans spin up hard as well

[-] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

I had no clue they made people do those to use it.

[-] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 23 points 9 months ago

Having to add "reddit" to every search in the hope of getting a remotely human answer and not just 10-20 corporate/government websites rehashing the same information

[-] cosecantphi@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

When most subreddits went offline last year, google became absolutely, profoundly useless. That really exposed this issue to a lot of people who actually hadn't noticed before. If I'm a google exec right now, I'd be looking to prop up reddit by any means necessary because at this point if reddit were to ever digg itself permanently, it'd probably take google with it.

[-] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

That's a great point

The disappointing thing is that there are still some niche forums out there if you know what they're called. But they rarely show up in Google searches

[-] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

I search Lemmy these days instead of reddit. Example:

laptop "join lemmy" inurl:post

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I've been saying for a while now that if someone brought back the fundamental ideas of hyperlinks as an authority-confirming tool of doing search ranking via bot crawlers it's quite possible that they could end up with a better search engine. In particular because the black hats have moved on from manipulating that style of search engine due to it no longer being how Google does things.

I think the most irritating thing is the recency bias Google has now. Sometimes the 15 year old page on a given topic is just better, and should still be the top result on a topic. Google incentivises the entire web to rehash itself over and over and over and over now. Churning out the same shit in different wording over and over again to chase recency bias.

[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

And adding reddit to the end so I get real people’s answers

[-] YuccaMan@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

The one and only reason that reddit shouldn't yet be scourged from the internet

[-] Shyfer@ttrpg.network 7 points 9 months ago

What, are the top results all being barely readable, AI generated spam articles and ad-sponsored or hidden marketing masquerading as reviews and blog posts not good enough for you?

Because if so, ya, that's all we got unless you tailor your search a bunch with stuff like that...

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

:yea:

[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

I find alternative search engines to be a lot better about that stuff.

[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

yep. enshittification in full effect.

[-] pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

its pretty breathtaking how much google in particular has turned to big pile of dog shit

I also really like digital repositories of libraries and such that ignore quotes and helpfully provide stuff they think you mean, extremely helpful when researching

[-] ValpoYAFF@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

If you use duckduckgo, you can put

!psy

Before your search to be taken directly to the psychonaut wiki page for that search term.

!psych

Directs you to the American psychological association lmao

[+] SubstantialNothingness@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why do people use Google anymore? I use DDG on a daily basis (which still censors stuff like that to a lesser degree), and Yandex or Startpage if the search includes keywords that are any more controversial than running in a wheat field.

[-] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 9 months ago

Using the modifiers is really handy too. Like adding !w to go directly to the ~~wiki~~natopedia page or !g to see the google results. List here.

Really handy when you get used to them.

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

There's also an addon for DDG that lets you block useless websites, improving your search results over time. I'll reply again when I'm home cause I forget the name

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

Please do, sounds useful

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Google Hit Hider by Domain (Search Filter / Block Sites)

Block unwanted sites from your Google, DuckDuckGo, Startpage.com, Bing and Yahoo search results

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/1682-google-hit-hider-by-domain-search-filter-block-sites

It's actually a Tampermonkey script

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

Hell yeah, this is a cool script, thank you

[-] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

I Google things like “I know you’re watching me” and “eat my ass FBI” just to keep them on notice.

fidel-cool

[+] HexBroke@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[-] simpletailor@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

LLMs are okay if you already know the answer, because they don't have a basis for truth or a bias for source; they prioritize frequency of co-occurrence of words in the training data. They can produce very convincing and completely made-up text, or propagate "common wisdom" that isn't actually correct.

Using ChatGPT is pretty much the same as trusting one of the random AI-generated blogs poisoning the search results--which other people in this thread are complaining about the uselessness of.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

We’re max 5 years away from google being nothing besides llm generated content trained on llm generated content this rules

[-] fox@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

Model collapse in 2 years or less

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

How do cranks even find their news on project bluebeam anymore when google searching "ufo" or "alien" just comes back with CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, CIA.gov, DOJ.gov, NATOpedia articles on "conspiracy theory"