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Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Search Engines Left That Don't Try To Think For Me?
An anonymous reader writes: As a programmer especially, I'm becoming increasingly unhappy with Google searches. They try very hard to present me with what they think I'm searching for instead of what I'm actually searching for. This issue mostly shows up when searching error messages, obscure type and function names and stuff like that. What I think though, is that I only notice the issue when searching for stuff I know a lot about, namely programming, but my queries get distorted when I'm searching for just about anything, I just don't know enough about the subject to notice. Are there any alternative search engines left that don't think they know better than me what I'm looking for and just search for my phrase, like in the 2000s?
Searching for exact strings is an option with Google, but what search engines are the most hands-off to start with?
tin foil hat wearing anti-vaxxer.
This is called an ad-hominem attack. You are no better than the people you are insinuating that you are better than.
You are attacking a person's search engine based on something that has nothing to do with their search engine. Why? Also, while they may be an "anti-vaxxer", I can't seem to find any evidence that this person wears tin foil hats. Source?
I honestly don't care what people do in their personal lives, vaccinate, don't vaccinate, wear hats made of foil, don't wear hats made of foil. How do people have so much energy to spend on hating each other based on the media's divide and conquer strategies? Either add something useful to the conversation (relevant to the discussion, which headwear and vaccination status most certainly aren't) or go post on your blog about how you hate everything not like yourself.