[Info-vax] [OT] Google search

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-05-16, John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <v24th6$1i7qe$1 at dont-email.me>,
> clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) wrote:
>
>> At the rate things are going, that order of searching is going to be
>> reversed as over the last few years Google search results have 
>> turned from specific high-quality results into utter generic crap.
>
> Google.com or .co.uk? I'm finding .co.uk is pretty decent, at least for
> the present. 
>

.co.uk.

I suppose it depends on the kind of thing you are looking for.

For technical examples, one issue is that way too often I get third-party
pages talking about standards/specifications instead of the standards or
specifications themselves.

For one recent non-work example, I was looking for some latest
examples of Sci-Fi short films that I had not yet seen.

[This is longer than I intended sorry, but it's a really good example of
something popular that Google covers very poorly.]

For some background, there is an incredibly talented large community
of people who produce short films on various themes and then post them
to Youtube for everyone to watch for free. They are produced on a small
budget, but are produced to high standards, and are far more creative
than the mainstream junk you see these days. For examples, see Laboratory
Conditions, Oceanus, etc, and the suggested viewing list alongside them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6_9YnTDR-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N25e4Ss34Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk6KKMZcK94

[WARNING: you may not like the subject matter in the second one, but it's
a good jumping off point to other shorts. What they all have in common is
that they expose you to new storylines you don't see in mainstream films.]

The DUST channel contains a good selection of these but there are many
others, far too many to keep track of other than by searching. I keep
getting utter junk back from Google or old very popular shorts I have
already seen.

I mention all this, because given just how massive this whole shorts
community/culture is, I would have thought it would be a _lot_ easier
to find new shorts via Google than it currently is.

It makes me wonder what else Google is making an utter mess-up of.

Simon.

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