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I was kinda thinking the same too until I went back and gave bing and DDG a shot and well, Google is still way better for my searches. I think its more of the seo spam that popping up thats making the results look less useful.
I suspect a bunch of people might jump on the bandwagon that this is Google repackaging others' content into search snippets and robbing their sites of traffic.

No doubt there's some truth to that, but I'd like to indulge in a slightly different flavour of Google bashing on this occasion.

The reason I often don't click through on search results is that the search results are garbage - either irrelevant or poor quality. I'm in the midst of refurbing and redecorating my house. Often I'll need to do some research on topics related to that, and when I do that I often find I need to refine my search query to find anything of relevance, even sometimes digging through several pages of results manually to find a really useful page.

And then there's work: I still haven't found any answers on this, but one of the things that's on my mind about becoming a more senior business leader is that I feel like I'm changing as a person. I feel like the way I think about problems and people is changing. That's to some extent to be expected, but the issue is I'm feeling ambivalent about some of the changes I perceive.

So it's about the effect that leadership has on the leader (selfish, I realise).

But when I start searching around this topic, what does Google want to show me? Pages and pages of results about change management or, when it's being marginally less of a village idiot, pages and pages of results about leadership styles and changing leadership style. Neither of these is what I'm talking about.

A human will understand that, but Google doesn't, and I'm finding that increasingly to be a problem when I'm looking for information: either, (i) my results are overwhelmed with low-grade spammy SEO'd to hell and back content, or (ii) Google's AI is too bloody stupid and pig-ignorant to understand what I'm talking about.

Hence I don't click through on the search results the majority of the time.
Well, we know what the EU press are claiming, but that quoted paragraph isn't true is it? How has AZ undermined its own efforts? Where are the communication problems or lack of transparency? They have been doing pretty clear press releases where they address whatever the latest nonsense de jour is. For example, their response to the claims the vaccine was dangerous was very clear and unambiguous. The confusion here has been generated exclusively by one side.

As for the contract, the Commission released that contract specifically redacted to try and imply it said things it didn't, but they redacted it wrongly. Note that the EU committed itself to secrecy about their agreements as part of negotiating a lower price than other countries are paying. Then a Belgian minister violated that agreement too by publishing the prices. So it's hard to criticise AZ for lack of transparency when no company publishes customer contracts proactively and the EU itself has tried to hide the details of its own agreement as part of misleading the public. We know that the Commission was lying about things partly because they keep accidentally releasing information they intended to be kept secret.

The fact is, the EU has been taking measures and making statements here that are UK specific. When it declared it would require vaccine export licenses it exempted every neighbouring state, except the UK. When it suspended the Northern Ireland protocol over vaccines, it was a UK specific move. Now they are threatening to seize factories and block exports of already paid for vaccines, to the UK. If there's some explanation for this that isn't political it's not obvious what it is, because AZ has done nothing wrong, and nor has the UK.
It's more complicated than that, which is kind of a good thing. There are other avenues that have some hope of working.
It’s not all bad. I consider it a feature that Google usually pulls the right information from Wikipedia. It doesn’t harm Wikipedia, which is free anyway, but reduces their bandwidth load.
> It's easy to attack Backblaze.

> Before attacking them for this, please make sure the company that you are working for or building doesn't do the same thing.

I don't get why these two are related at all. One can do both the second and the first. By their own admission in other HN threads, Backblaze earns several million dollars a year and is proud not to have VC backing. So it doesn't seem like anybody is attacking an underdog who's struggling to change the status quo and needs to be held to lower standards.
Doesn't DDG do the same thing? DDG will show a snippet from Wikipedia, has a built in calculator, built in timer, and so on...

Sure, Google also has a flight tracker widget, but it's not that much worse than DDG. If you really want no widgets or inline responses, https://www.startpage.com/ has that.

EDIT: Startpage does have a time widget (search for "time in <some place>"), but doesn't have a calculator, timer, or literally anything else. How odd...
I should also mention, those automagic naming schemes use the beginning text in the document. So it's basically the personal details of plaintiff vs. defendant.

I've also seen similar schemes used by doctor offices/hospitals, where you'll see the patient name and ailment. I once had to troubleshoot a backup problem for what turned out to obviously be an OB-GYN. Imagine my horror as I saw long filenames containing patient names and common STDs scroll by in the thousands.
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Google provides tons of data itself. I search stock prices on it. No clicks there. I search weather on it. No click there.

There are all sorts a little utilities that are now just part of Google.
I think the downvotes on our comments should tell you how extensively it's being discussed.

It's not. The people actually running things like it that way.
> Is that like asking what stocks to invest

Yes it is. Watch "The Big Short" if you think the housing market might be less crazy. So take my advice with the appropriate skepticism:

With the lock downs and rise in remote work there has been upward pressure on rural and low density housing prices, same as toilet paper and weightlifting equipment. That makes it a seller's market. I have rural neighbors moving forward their plans to sell for that reason. As a buyer I might be inclined to wait for the pandemic to pass and for prices to revert somewhat to the mean.

This advice is brought to you by someone who managed to buy at the very top of the real estate market. I think the crash happened when I signed my purchase agreement.
In 2014, the Google Knowledge Graph was a good way for Google to redirect Wikipedia page views to its own ecosystem. Good job Google!
https://wikipediocracy.com/2014/01/06/googles-knowledge-grap...
To be fair the default software supply chain integrity story and sandboxing of docker, snap, and appimage are also terrible. They all solve the same "problem".

Without dedicated parties to maintain updates... like a distro, most of the packages distributed with these tools just make Linux less secure even if the tools themselves are useful in right context.

The docs and authors of these tools are trying to bring to Linux the "go on the internet and get a random .exe" model of Windows which is a proven security nightmare.
I get those letters every other day now. It's pure spray and pray from agents.
How much is this due to mobile search quite often I do a search with auto complete on my phone - then add a modifier to get the search you want.
Many moons ago, I put a ton of work into a (now defunct) content site that provided specific information in a small vertical. Each post took hours, but I enjoyed writing the articles, and the revenue from the ads was enough to enjoy a little extra cash every month (we're talking just about enough to cover a car payment, for context).

Google decided they liked a lot of the content and started providing it in their knowledge graph. It was initially great to be validated and the link to my content at the top of the search result was pretty cool to see. But it did tank traffic, as Google scraping my content and giving it away at the top of their search result page meant people didn't need to navigate to my site.

Felt pretty terrible, if I'm being honest, but I also have always subscribed to understanding the risks for relying on other networks for my own benefit.

BUT!!!

As a regular user of search engines, I love getting the answer super fast without necessarily having to guess what sort of ad-trap I'll have to navigate to get the answer I'm looking for on some random content site.

As a user, when I'm asking some non-critical question, it's nice to just get a snappy answer. I appreciate it.

The problem of course arises when content creators stop making the content for Google to scrape and index, what then?
Its a romantic notion, making every transaction public. A theory. But, alas, not all humans and much of society appreciate knowing every single detail. And those that do will cause a political crawl so devastating as to invoke the reverse of its intention.
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That's an affiliate link. It seems then Mozilla is injecting affiliate codes on Amazon searches.
The roadmap is here https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap
> but these days I'm seeing a lot more of a walking back of this as people invariably use the primitives incorrectly and shoot themselves in the foot

Interesting, on which eco-systems you see this happening (iOS/MacOS) ?
Right and I’d be for society helping them with that sort of debt. But having a judgement against someone does open avenues for future, slow recovery.
This was a really refreshing and honest take on early retirement, especially among the FI blogosphere.

> I looked at other FI bloggers who quit work and retired. They all appeared to be blissful. Stoic. Confident and without reservations. Since I ran into problems myself, I started to feel like I was defective. Like something was wrong with me and that’s why it didn’t work so well. Maybe it has to do with my personality (a nerdy introvert). Or it could be because I’m not trying to sell product and make money off of my choices, like almost everyone else who blogs about FI seems to.

There always seemed like a potentially strange conflict of interest with many of the FI bloggers who are ostensibly "retired early", but still earn a significant amount of money from their FI blogs. Which isn't to say they shouldn't be earning that money, but it does bring up questions about some of the conclusions that they make. (There's also a bit of a groupthink or even cult-like mentality among some of them, particularly in the MMM sphere.)
How is that relevant to what Stallman meant when he talked about pedophilia?
No internet needed for my setup either, local network only.
Nice try ULA.
Especially not in the USA when the least of a health issue can eat up your savings in a couple of short months unless you have extremely good health coverage, which only the rich (who don't actually need it ...) have.
Also relevant: https://xkcd.com/1654/
> The view you've expressed above seems to be the only one I read among the British press/commentariat.

I'm from Germany, and that has been pretty much my impression as well. Merkel gave vaccine orders as a PR gift to von der Leyen/EU, they messed up badly. While that came out piece by piece, surprise surprise, in came the "mistakes".

I'm sure it's not a large conspiracy, at some point there's enough FUD spread everywhere that everyone's threshold for "pause the campaign" is low enough, "just to be safe", but some parts of it very much did look like revenge.
To me the emphasis on the FIRE community should be on the FI part of the equation.

For many people in many countries, there is no concept of "retirement". It seems so silly to me that people would go and say "I'll work really hard and do all this stuff for 40 years so I can sit around and do nothing for another 30 years".

What's the point? It's unsustainable. It's like doing a crash diet - it may work for a minute, but to have long-term results you need to have a lifestyle change.

Focusing on financial independence means you can achieve better long-term results. Living within your means over the course of 80 years instead of balls-to-the-wall for 30-40 and then a quick and silent death for 30 seems to be a better course of action and would lead to longer lifespan.

Once you reach financial independence - whatever that means to you - you can take on other interests. It could be working at a startup, or a non-profit, or volunteering, or gardening. You name it. But financial independence enables such things. FI > RE.
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I'd guess because people who are looking for something specific, are more likely to buy the damn thing if they find it, if it's something buyable.
Instagrams "view this post on instagram" thing is truly despicable.
I get calls from telemarketers asking me. I don't even own a house.
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I love the various attached stories about people’s personal lives and tribulations, almost all of which I assume are fake.
> This is pure slander

<pedantry>It's libel (written) not slander (oral); "defamation" is the generic noun. </pedantry>
> space shuttle was reusable

No, it wasn't. It was sort of reusable, but only with a lot of expensive refurbishment.

> I don't believe for a second SpaceX engineers are better than NASA engineers

Modern materials and computer aided design tools are incomparable to those the Shuttle designers had. Also, SpaceX is less conflicted than NASA was when it designed the Shuttle.
Anyone have thoughts on NFTs in this space to ensure that a credible author signed a video and therefore it is a credible video? NFT noob here :)
I agree we should not ignore detrimental environmental effects. However we should strive for a nuanced view which attempts to determine root causes.

The root cause of artificial fertilizers is fossil fuels.

The root cause of feedlot runoff is... feedlots? I'm not sure if there's something more fundamental at play here. I'd like to see a fundamental analysis of this.

Cattle feed is generally not human edible, that's the beauty of ruminant animals. Even conventionally raised cattle usually grow up on grass, only to be finished on grain. Granted as cattle are slaughtered at younger and younger ages, the grain finishing portion is consuming a larger percentage of their overall lifetime feed stuff. But even so the grain they're eating wasn't going to just end up on your dinner plate. They eat the husk and all. And besides this is only bad insofar as growing food in general is bad, so that's the root cause.

You missed deforestation, which we discussed elsewhere in the comments. I recommend to check it out.
But this $149 super-selective top-secrets road-to-wealth program told me I need to cold-call and ask, no, demand! what I need to acquire wealth.
I noticed this too and now suffix any query that I think Wikipedia is best at with “wiki.”

This is faster for me that opening Wikipedia and searching.
There will always be demand for cafe/bookstores like this. For bibliophiles, the "third place"[0] is stores such as this.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsVFTxZiHd0
But: he's still giving investment advice and he still doesn't realize just how lucky he got.
They don't advertise, but they have the same issues, which should be dealt with. I don't think it's fine to just say "security doesn't concern us" in the year 2021.
Same here. I can remember how refreshing it was when Google was new and you could trust it to give you results for what you actually searched for instead of what it thought you searched for, like AltaVista and the rest of its competitors were doing at the time.

I guess it's time for something new to do the same thing to Google that it did to those companies years ago.
I just put “Wiki” into the Google search because Wikipedia usually has what I’m looking for.
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Agreed! 600k per organization seems like pennies compared to the Billions invested in SpaceX so far.
Can't wait for my javascript powered IoT kettle that has a cpu more powerful than my laptop and includes 4gb of ram to load half of npm into memory! The future looks ever so much brighter!
The wind difference between the ends of the tunnel likely provides pretty substantial ventilation. It also wouldn't be hard to just have a X-minute pause between ships to let the air clear out. Or they could just install ventilation. This is a non-issue.
True, UAF still kind of sucks in zig. My prediction is that we are going to eventually get some sort of formal verification engine for zig as a third party tool.
Maintaining Haskell code in my experience is s piece of cake. The community is really careful to avoid breaking changes, and when they can't be avoided, to introduce them in the most polite, gradual, convenient way possible.
I now use google as a last resort. I start on DDG or Bing and go from there. If those are dead ends, I will reluctantly use Google as a means of last resort.

There are so many ads and now every time I search for something on Google, the first five results aren't even related to what I'm looking for. You search for "hifi headphones" and you get eight of the top ten searches are something like, "The top 10 hifi headphones." in an article from three or four years ago. Or "What you need to know about buying hifi headphones." informational articles. Not to mention the obligatory Amazon product link stuffing at the top of any product search results.

Google's results are just so convoluted, its a real PIA to try and wade through everything they're advertising in order to get to an actual product or manufacturing website these days - I just gave up a few years ago. Too much advertising and not enough organic results to be useful anymore.
Did they scrape your content and put it into their own database? That is, if you had deleted all of your content, would it still have appeared in the Google results?
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Ah, the hallmark of a functional marketplace.
Oil and coal also used to be organic matter, so it also is a cycle. Just a much longer one.
As a consumer I absolutely that google provides the answers I need without having to click on any sites.
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"The problem of course arises when content creators stop making the content for Google to scrape and index disappear, what then?"

communist revolution?
It's actually something good (expecially for Google) since the information found is now usually in the results itself instead of inside a website.
If you notice, in the last years, Google shows you lists extracted from articles, makes calculations directly, answer simple questions like age, shows a lot of Wikipedia info for any person/movie on the right, etc, etc.
It's not because there is more ads or because the results are irrelevant, actually I'm never disappointed by the results.
Government is part of the innovation equation, the private space sector would not exist without US vs USSR Space Race.

Where Europe and others continually drop the ball is due to short sightedness and a reactionary mindset. They want to back alternative options to today’s market environment rather than planning for, incentivising and investing in future market making solutions.
I'm not sure if you're joking. This seems like a reasonable feature to have but then you threw in blockchain and now I'm not sure anymore.
It’s very easy to sell or purchase a home without an agent. You can contact the owner, and get all the paperwork done with a lawyer who deals in real estate transactions. There are usually signs that say “For Sale By Owner”.
Yup. Weather, stocks, various bits of statistical info like GDP and population, and image searches. Image searches are super awesome for learning some things in ways you didn’t expect.
> It's a 9V battery. Relax.

That's the kind of thinking that leads to stuff like this:

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/jury-rules-radio-station-jennifer...

> Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old mother of three, was among 18 people who entered the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" competition. They tried to drink as much water as they could without urinating in a bid to win a Nintendo Wii gaming console....

"It's just water. Relax."

> "Can you get water poisoning and, like, die?" asked the female disc jockey.

> "Not with water," a male disc jockey replied. "Your body is 98 percent water. Why can't you take in as much water as you want?"

> "Maybe we should have researched this before," the female disc jockey added....

> Strange drank nearly two gallons of water in over three hours on Jan. 12, 2007. During the contest, she could be heard complaining about pain to disc jockeys at 107.9 "The End."

> "Oh, it hurts," Strange said, while one male disc jockey remarked that she looked pregnant and another, a woman, said "That is so funny."...

> Strange left after taking second place, winning a pair of concert tickets. She then called in sick at work and died in her bathroom just hours after the contest.
Yeah. I wonder what fraction of searches actually end with no clicks, just the requestor bouncing from the search results page. Anecdotally, I suspect that metric is also trending in the wrong direction.
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If it's written in German, I still wouldn't know.
And I made up the HTTP status code "397 Tolerating" so that if you spell it "Referrer", browsers can correct you while still giving you the response you wanted :-p (see section 3 example):

https://pastebin.com/TPj9RwuZ
With the market prices being as high as they are now and low inventory I would recommend you rent for now and get to know the new area/city first. It's a seller's market right now and there's a higher chance of you over-paying for a property right now.
I keep telling friends that i would rather buy a home with a lower price but higher rate/apr than vice-versa. You can always refinance, but you'll never be able to change the price you've paid.

Edit: Also worth noting that real estate markets are more local, so there exists the chance that you might still be able to find some affordable houses but depends on the area.
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>I'm certain that the switch to Natural Language Processing drove this decline

It's the switch from lexical/syntactic search to semantic search. There are benefits and drawbacks to each and it would be nice for Google to give you the option to try each.
I don't think that's the case. You should e-mail support@mlab.com and ask them to help you get a copy of your data.
Yes, and I think the matrix should really include these aspects of Zig's safety to be a fair comparison, because otherwise it's like evaluating Rust's safety but without mentioning the borrow checker.
Put signature and stated use case appears to match the Elgato Key Lights API.

https://www.elgato.com/en/key-light

https://www.npmjs.com/package/elgato-light-api