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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And our time. I’m sick of googling something and getting nothing out these fluff pieces with little or no real information. It’s made Google near useless for entire subjects. Try searching for troubleshooting on anything Apple for example.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This is why you need to add reddit to the search.

Which is sad as hell.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use bing chat, it's currently the best search engine out there

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried it for a few days initially but it was confidently wrong a third of the time, or very slow.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Did you switch it from creative to precise? In creative mode it's genuinely awful, but with precise set, it always finds exactly what I'm looking for. It also has gpt-4 integration now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Or the fun variant where you intentionally search for something in your native tongue because you want results relevant to your country and get badly translated articles that nowhere inform you that they are translated.

[–] laskoune 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, but remember you're not Google's customer so ... win-win for them