I always bookmark sites I know I will use frequently. I didn’t realize people didn’t do that anymore lol
What happened to the search engines? They always seem to work fine for me
Most people don’t know advanced googling anymore, even though it largely still works.
As far as people not using bookmarks, they just refuse to close tabs until they’re sure they’ll never return to a given site. People even obsess over tree style tabs and other tab organizing add-ons or features rather than, y’know, using bookmarks with folders which can already handle all of that.
What do you consider advanced googling?
“Advanced” Site:google.com filetype:pdf -“consider” etc etc.
Using targeted operators to refine your search.
Plenty of resources on it by searching “Google operators”
Well yes, but also just any use of https://www.google.com/advanced_search
Oh wow, they made it easier and people still didn’t use it
That’s been there for decades. We were taught to use it in middle school (~2003 for me). There used to be a fairly prominent link to the advanced search page from the main Google homepage.
For a while, regular google searches were good enough to find everything you needed, so the skill became less common/important. My guess is that public knowledge of it has just atrophied over time.
https://www.google.com/advanced_search
But also just anything from this page:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?p=adv_operators&hl=en&rd=1
My problem is that when I search for something, I often want to find precisely the text that I’m searching for. Not just some of the words, not synonyms, and not random stuff with no apparent connection to it. Putting the search query in quotes doesn’t always help.
I never stopped bookmarking. Type a word and usually the browser will find that long lost page from the bookmarks.
Don’t even have to bookmark. You type few words separated by spaces of anything in browser history, browser will show it as a suggestion. Example: “steam palworld” “Jira projectname board” Etc.
You don’t clear your browsing history regularly?
I didn’t realize people stopped…bookmarks are incredibly useful.
Google has been so bad it’s making bing better. No seriously, bing is better than Google.
Until SEO comes for Bing…
Arg… I hope they don’t. Mess up google. I don’t care.
Yeah I moved to bing a year ago, it genuinely is.
Its pretty good. At least for now the results is not garbage on the top links.
Bring back personal homepages and webrings!
And visitor counters
Geocities!
The keywords for bookmarks in Firefox are amazing. I type the thing my brain thinks of when I think of a website and boom I’m there.
I already bookmarked but with this whole enshitification I began hoarding data. All those txts, images, videos, songs that I bookmarked? Am downloading and categorizing all of it
I never stopped bookmarking.
I’ve never let go of bookmarks and RSS. Still the best systems around.
DDG seems to still function nicely. And I’ve never stopped using bookmarks. Didn’t know people weren’t using bookmarks anymore… I mean, what do you? Search for the same website you frequently use or just make a button that can do it in one click?
DDG is complete dogshit. It’s my primary search engine and it drives me mad with how useless it is. It was pretty bad but it’s gotten way way worse over the past couple of months I feel.
And yeah until a couple of days ago I hadn’t bookmarked anything for 13 years. I just keep tabs open, remember names of sites or search the web. But I think I’ll start bookmarking again in some cases, but bookmarks suck ever since Delicious disappeared.
DuckDuck Go took getting used to for me due to it lacking all the convenient algorithms from Google that… used to in the past… contribute to getting better search results.
The lack of these conveniences is why I switched to DDG years ago in the first place. I realised Google was essentially helping everyone build their own Internet echo chambers and I didn’t want to be part of that.
It does mean you actually need to be good at searching for what you want because DDG is very bad at “guessing”.
Or to put it differently; I call you complaints skill issues. :)
You may call it as you wish. And in some way you might be right. But I’ve been searching the web since the 90’s, from AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, Google to DDG. I use operators in my queries etc. I’m not new to this. One thing that drives me mad with DDG is that it translates search terms, even if they’re in quotes, and gives me results with the translated terms mixed in with the original term. That is never ever what I want. It really likes to decide for me what I want I feel like, like when I searched for screenshots of the software for a particular surveillance camera, DDG showed me nothing but product images of said camera. I tried several different queries, only got product photos. Tried Google and immediately got a whole bunch of screenshots, which DDG should have known given the term screenshot and other synonyms, in quotes.
SearXNG is better in some ways. It’s a more literal search and doesn’t try to guess what you’re thinking as much as Google or DDG.
From my personal experience it became worse in the past few years. Sometimes I couldn’t find something only to find it with one search request in google or yandex /:
Ddg is great for the US, but shit outside.
I live in Denmark. I can’t complain.
So I’m not really crazy right? Google has been going downhill over the past year or so?
Yes. Just today I googled “normal standing heartrate”. What I received were a bunch of pages telling me a normal resting heart rate.
I bookmark so much these days. Other times I collect links with better descriptions in Joplin.
People don’t bookmark? I have dozens of bookmarks all set up in folders. It’s just easier than typing every time. Plus, I have a PC connected to my TV for watching illegal sports streams. With bookmarks, I don’t need my keyboard most of the time. I just have a wireless mouse and that’s it.
illegalMaybe you should not admit that you are breaking the law
Hey everyone! I’m breaking the law!
RSS and bookmarks. I never stopped. Firefox even searches first on my bookmarks and offers them before the online search option.
you are way more right than you think. Now that i think about it i started bookmarking more and more in correlation with the search engine enshittification trend.
