[jerry1979]

> You can't go back to the way things were.

> type in anything, and somehow it will read your mind

I think we can go back to the way things were, which had nothing to do with mind reading. In the past, you could type in word, and google would offer 10 million results, and you could page through each of them. That was very powerful, and google does not do that today.

[wbl]

I was in high school 15 years ago and Google absolutely read minds to conclude Briney Spears was not a search for pickles but rather a pop artist. This was significant enough for them to come to go talk about it.

[PhasmaFelis]

Also a good point. One time I couldn't remember what Minute (multi-app installer) was called, so I googled "the thing what downloads all the things" and lo and behold, Google found it. Their algo used to be really clever.

[PhasmaFelis]

Ugh, "Ninite." Thanks, autocorrect.

[Ferret7446]

I don't think you know what you are asking. Do you really want 10 million pages of results, of which 99.999...% are SEO spam for Viagra et al, and on average you will need to browser ~9 million pages of results to find something that's actually "relevant"?