• ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
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        3 months ago

        Thank you kindly for the links, I was just about to search for the Manchester Bombing, if I’m being honest I thought “The Troubles” was the name of a book or movie. I didn’t realize they gave such a non-chillant name to such a bloody conflict. Suddenly the meme makes sense though!

        Thanks again!

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        3 months ago

        They never really did.

        Also I never really used Google. I am a duckduckgo or brave search or even startpage type of guy.

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          3 months ago

          Just FYI - Startpage is also using Google’s search index, so you’re kind of also “googling”.

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              3 months ago

              In general, there are two main search indexes: Google’s and Bing’s, with a bunch of smaller ones here and there.

              DDG uses Bing and Yahoo, mainly. Their own index is relatively small.

              Brave says they use their own index.

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        3 months ago

        What exactly in the above sentence would have suggested to the average person that they should Google search the troubles?
        Or are you saying any time I see a nonsensical sentence I should just stop what I’m doing and google search the whole thing?

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          3 months ago

          What exactly in the above sentence would have suggested to the average person that they should Google search the troubles?

          Well, I am still under the - maybe naive - impression that people understand context.

          If one user writes about “The Troubles” (capitalised), and another mentions “the Manchester blast”, my expectation was that a person is able to put 2 and 2 together and google “The Troubles Manchester blast” at the very least.