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[-] PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

2020 has become the decade of reading books. Search results these days are so bad.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 6 months ago

Postgres is a weird one. The first link probably answers the query, just click the latest version (or your version) once you are there.

The problem is probably so many systems run old versions, so the results skew.

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It doesn't matter. List all the crap you want, but show me the most up to date official documentation for the postgres "IN" operator in the very first result! It can't be that hard.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 6 months ago

But the 9.6 version, or 11 version, could be the most popular.

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Well, in that case it's a shitty search engine if it doesn't offer accurate results.

And, well, that's what we have with Google.

[-] johny_joe_1975@discuss.online 1 points 6 months ago

So many SEO trick to put yourselves into top google search for traffic.

I have google for bug and stuff, and most common bug can be found on shitty content Java tip page with broken format, lot of ads, and sometime untrue/outdate information.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

You can be searching for information on your car and get a similar experience.

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml -3 points 6 months ago

I've started relying more on AI-powered tools like Perplexity for many of my search use-cases for this very fact - all results basically warrant a pre-filtering to be useful.

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[-] eightforty@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago

How aboout you do your own code? Badumtiish

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.run -3 points 6 months ago

You didn't include a version in your query. You also could try using quotes, though this specific entry may not be helped by it (e.g. "in operator"). For most things, you can click a link with the older version and somewhere there is typically a dropdown or something to change the version and, if not, you'll at least know which section/etc. it is in in the new documentation.

If you don't include a version, it's probably going to pull up questions/answers that it finds most match in general and maybe people just aren't asking that question for your version.

I think there's a lot to hate about modern search results, but I also think there's some opportunity to search better. I do miss the days when AND, OR, and NOT operators actually worked all the time and as expected.

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