[FergusArgyll]

Off Topic;

It fascinates me how much variance there is in peoples searching skills.

some people think they are talking to a person when searching e.g 'what is the best way that i can {action}' I think the number one trick is to forget grammar and other language niceties and just enter concepts e.g. 'clean car best'

[BlueGh0st]

I used to do this. Then when Google's search results started declining in quality, I often found it better to search by what the average user would probably write.

[user32489318]

and what would an average user write?

[amelius]

An entire question instead of a bunch of keywords.

[CommieBobDole]

Over the last couple of years, at least with Google, I've found that no strategy really seems to work all that well - Google just 'interprets' my request and assumes that I'm searching for a similar thing that has a lot more answers than what I was actually searching for, and shows me the results for that.

[feitingen]

Some concepts seems to be permanently defined as a spelling error and will just be impossible to search for.

[ercan]

I found something very annoying while looking for technical data ( a service manual for an ancient medical device - build around 2001).

The same term was the name of the device + something about the power source.

The result from the client network - my phone/client computer nothing related to the search for 4-5 pages.

Same search from work - second result was what I was looking.

So it seems there is a relation with your search history, but somehow connected with the related search history from the same ip/network.

[user32489318]

same experience. I'm generally getting better results at client's (VPN) network, we are all googling for the same stuff, I guess.

It must be possible to create a fixed set of google searches and rate the location based on the results. So you could physically travel to a Starbucks 20miles away to get the best results for the 'best USB-C dongle reddit'.

[m463]

Unfortunately search engines have learned to, well, basically ignore user input.

Amazon is the worst.

I used "" and + and - for terms to get what I want, and its search engine still gives you the sponsored results and an endless list of matches based on what you might buy instead of what you searched for.

ugh.

[szundi]

That’s why they will love chatgpt