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Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

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[–] ward2k 95 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Honestly Google Search in general seems to get worse every year, for work any kind of niche issue involving errors returns no results on Google (literally no results), tried plugging the same search into Bing and the first 5 results were actual answers on solving the error

It amazes me how a search engine once considered a massive joke is able to outperform Google

[–] cashews_win 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
[–] ward2k 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

An error log for some Scala code, tried the usual thing of Googling full error log, key words etc and nothing really returned any actual useful results (or none at all)

Put the full log into Bing and the first few results were straight from stack overflow and a raised GitHub issue describing the errors cause

[–] pwnstar 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow that's pretty awesome, I'll have to give bing a try

[–] gimmemahlulz 1 points 1 year ago

That's a phrase you'd never have heard ~5 years ago lol.

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