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Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Most people don't know advanced googling anymore, even though it largely still works.

As far as people not using bookmarks, they just refuse to close tabs until they're sure they'll never return to a given site. People even obsess over tree style tabs and other tab organizing add-ons or features rather than, y'know, using bookmarks with folders which can already handle all of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What do you consider advanced googling?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“Advanced” Site:google.com filetype:pdf -“consider” etc etc.

Using targeted operators to refine your search.

Plenty of resources on it by searching “Google operators”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well yes, but also just any use of https://www.google.com/advanced_search

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh wow, they made it easier and people still didn’t use it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's been there for decades. We were taught to use it in middle school (~2003 for me). There used to be a fairly prominent link to the advanced search page from the main Google homepage.

For a while, regular google searches were good enough to find everything you needed, so the skill became less common/important. My guess is that public knowledge of it has just atrophied over time.