Sigh.
I donโt know whatโs happened with the โworldโs favourite search engineโ of late, but it has, in my humble opinion, become a trifle rubbish.
I think of somebody who I havenโt seen for many a year, and just do a quick olโ search of their name and notice in the returned results that their surname has been struck through with the word โmissingโ added. The same with their first nameโฆ but I have many results returned for, say, tables made out of oak, which had absolutely nothing to do with what I was searching for in the first place. If Iโd have known that I was going to get rubbish back, Iโd rather have saved my time than searching in the first place.
Mutter. Grumble. Gripe.
I read recently that this is because โtheyโ donโt just want to do a straightforward search, but want to do a โconversationalโ search instead. For me, thatโs pointless too. If I want to search for something, I just want to search for it, and not bother knowing what the search engine is doing that evening, or how the weather is in their part of the world.
If thereโs nothing listed for what I search for, Iโd rather just be told that and nothing elseโฆ I can then try a different approach.
Is that too much to ask for in this day and age?
(By the way, I wouldnโt mind as much if the results were humorousโฆ but tables made out of oak???!!!)
(By the way again, all names have been redacted / extracted / removed from this post just so they do not appear in any search results. Although they probably wouldnโt have anyway!)
(And by the way โ if you or any search engines out there are interested, it was a wonderfully gorgeous Spring Day today. Absolutely fabulous!)
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