I miss the good old days when Google search used AND rather than OR.
I miss the good old days when Google search used AND rather than OR. Now it uses some kind of heuristic that frequently overwhelms my own instincts about how to narrow my search. I just tried an arbitrary search for the first thing that came to mind and everything was going great until I added a word whose occurrence evidently dwarfed my original search space: pistachio (18,400,000 results) pistachio cookies (2,570,000 results) pistachio cookies milk (1,220,000 results) pistachio cookies milk chocolate (1,210,000 results) pistachio cookies milk chocolate round (3,640,000 results) Maybe this was detecting the semantics of my search, for example “pistachio cookies” and “chocolate milk” as two separate concepts and OR’ing the set. But I don’t understand why it didn’t detect “round pistachio cookies”, but instead treated “round” as a completely different result set. This combined with the fact that quotes and plusses don’t always seem to make a keyword mandatory has really hindered usability for me. I sometimes find better results by typing keywords into domain-specific searches (sites like Stack Overflow). I wish there was a way to display Google’s interpretation of the keywords as something like SQL, the way that wolframalpha.com works, so that I could learn how to format my queries.
Posted by zackmorris on Jan 16, 2015, 7:04 PM
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I wish there was a link to the repo included on the website.
> but I wish there was a middle ground between it and VK There's WebGPU (probably the best option for teaching), D3D11 and Metal.
Decent article.
I understand and previously agreed with Mozilla's hard line privacy and security stance.
☂️ Reinforcement: Add more basic components to the core framework
Adding templating to more notification providers
Code Push / Hot Update / out of band updates
My first programs were written in FORTRAN II.
I miss the good old days when Google search used AND rather than OR.
I miss the good old days when Google search used AND rather than OR. Now it uses some kind of heuristic that frequently overwhelms my own instincts about how to narrow my search. I just tried an arbitrary search for the first thing that came to mind and everything was going great until I added a word whose occurrence evidently dwarfed my original search space: pistachio (18,400,000 results) pistachio cookies (2,570,000 results) pistachio cookies milk (1,220,000 results) pistachio cookies milk chocolate (1,210,000 results) pistachio cookies milk chocolate round (3,640,000 results) Maybe this was detecting the semantics of my search, for example “pistachio cookies” and “chocolate milk” as two separate concepts and OR’ing the set. But I don’t understand why it didn’t detect “round pistachio cookies”, but instead treated “round” as a completely different result set. This combined with the fact that quotes and plusses don’t always seem to make a keyword mandatory has really hindered usability for me. I sometimes find better results by typing keywords into domain-specific searches (sites like Stack Overflow). I wish there was a way to display Google’s interpretation of the keywords as something like SQL, the way that wolframalpha.com works, so that I could learn how to format my queries.
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