My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We’re in our early 40s.

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    1 year ago

    Google is getting objectively worse. I’ve read that in a few places but it hit me the other day with this query:

    ”ruby” “gem” “rspec” -rails

    I had added the quotes because all the results talked about only Ruby on Rails and not using RSpec in Ruby on Rails.

    With the above query, Google showed results with Rails in bold because it thought it was “smart” thinking if I’m talking about Ruby, I must be talking about Ruby on Rails.

    This is like entry-level search engine syntax. I’ve already de-Googled my life other than search, but this is really pushing me to ditch Google search as well.