The man who killed Google Search?

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1884 points elorant | 1 comments | 23 Apr 24 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.222s | source

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OnionBlender ◴[23 Apr 24 17:47 UTC] No.40134816[source]▶

I'm so sick of search systems ignoring or changing my search string. LinkedIn is especially bad for this. If I search for "OpenGL", many of the results don't contain the one word I searched for. Many of the results are "promoted" jobs from Microsoft that have nothing to do with graphics.

On Apple’s job site, it will include OpenCL jobs in addition to OpenGL.

It is probably more efficient for my time and sanity to create a web scraper and run my own searches offline. At least for searching for job postings.

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chankstein38 ◴[23 Apr 24 17:55 UTC] No.40134925[source]▶

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I agree. Fuzzy searches are a bane of my existence. Like trying to search amazon for any specific detail about a product. All you get are basically the same promoted crap from a non-specific search. I just want my results.

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1. magicalhippo ◴[24 Apr 24 09:15 UTC] No.40142208[source]▶

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I switched to using DuckDuckGo primarily, and it's now fuzzy by default. It returns lots of results that doesn't contain more than the most generic word in my query, and I always get this one hit for a completely unrelated site just because it has the name of my town in the headline.

Sure you can force it by using "foobar" but yeah, searching the web isn't what it used to be.

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