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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

There's an ongoing tendency among devs, who seem to believe that users are those irrational things, unable to actually know what they want/need. To the point that they violate one of the basic premises of both programming and human decency: don't assume, ask.

Couple that with corporate interests, the "modernisation" of round wheels into square ones, and most people using the same search plugins, and here you go.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I want boolean algebra in my search syntax. Everything else feels like a toy

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 11 points 19 hours ago

Boolean logic is the bare minimum IMO. Specially "not" - sometimes you know trashy results will feature a specific string, and you want to remove them.

And the system should be able to use the logic for whole expressions, not just individual words.

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 13 hours ago

The technical term is called enshittification

[–] doc@fedia.io 5 points 19 hours ago

Verbatim search is the only way to get useful results from Google anymore.