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What search engine is currently showing the most useful results? What other tricks do we have aside of adding "reddit" or whatever internet community to the results?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For a brief moment in time search engines were perfected. Then they veered off course. All of them did. Why though.

Remember when you could list vaguely some words related an obscure movie to Google. Then it would tell you the movie you're thinking of. That's been nerfed.

Tangentially related. What's the deal with search engines of online stores. It's like they aren't even search engines at all. They're doing nothing more than showing me products/sellers they want me to buy from. Digikey lets you drill down to precise specification filters. I wish all search engines could be like that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually the vague movie description thing was due to imdb's movie tags that users had set on the movie and search engine was doing the simples things it could i.e. "all this one word links point to this movie, perhaps it is this?"

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Why'd they stop?