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Google Annoys Me Insanely

2 pointsIvanSologub4 comments

When I search for information, I want to get not 14,900,000 links found on the Internet pages, among which, probably, there is information that I need.

I need an answer.

Clear, understandable and structured. It would be great if it also fits into the context of my previous search and matched my needs based on my previous actions.

It's very simple! If I go to a search engine and type “Mask” - before that I did not look for the address of the nearest one (which excludes the possibility of coronavirus), I am not fond of cosmetics and there are no appointments in my calendar for the next three hours (and indeed it’s the evening) ... Hence I am looking for a movie with Jim Carey.

The situation I described is very primitive - but I think it shows where I'm going.

We need to (1) avoid providing information in the form of a large number of links and (2) make tools friends with each other at the system level, not interfaces.

Let's start doing it!

It will never work, because the computer will never be able to infer what I want. I might be looking for the movie, then five minutes later be looking for information about layer masks in Gimp. You're suggesting I should be able to type "mask" in both cases and, somehow, Google should figure out what I'm really looking for. I don't want them to even try. I can type one or two additional keywords:

    mask movie
    mask gimp

See? It's easy, and it already works.

Do you think that the option you proposed does not take into account the (global) context. For example, me: I don't use GIMP, not a beautician, it's Saturday evening.

Google is very trend-orientated. It cherry picks the hottest trends, and displays them on the first few results. You can of course constrain your results to match a certain time-frame, then you will find your `The Mask` movie results. You could also use something like DuckDuckGo which isn't as trend-orientated and gives you a basic result, not a trying-really-hard / popular result like Google does.

I most likely pushed the reader towards wolframalpha.com. Try to enter some kind of query and look at the result. To the form for issuing this result

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