Glad you don’t give a fuck. Good for you. I can understand why you wouldn’t have the time to master such a complex tool as Google with you going outside and all.
It takes all of about 10 minutes to learn how to use Google well. It’s not complex. If you want to do ‘and’ searches on words, put a + in front of each word. Want to search for a quote put the words in quotes (who’d a thunk that?).
For example, if you used google to search with the following:
lazy dumb ass going outside
It would search for all pages that had any of the words lazy, dumb, ass, going or outside on the page.
The search
+lazy +dumb +ass +going +outside
would look for any page with all the words included on the page somewhere.
The search
“lazy dumb ass going outside”
would search for any page with that exact phrase.
And you can combine operations
+lazy +dumb +ass +“going outside”
would search for all pages with the words lazy, dumb and ass along with the phrase ‘going outside’.
My Google-Fu is pretty good and I just explained what I use on 99% of my searches. Now, how hard was that? Not hard at all.
As Colibri pointed out the first sticky in GQ meantions that using search engines first is a good thing.
Part of fighting ignorance is teaching people how to be less ignorant. IE, find the answer themselves.
When I provide an answer that I found using google I put the search string in the post so that next time the person will have an idea of how to start the search, though sometimes I forget.
If the self-proclaimed Google-Fu black belts didn’t seem so intent on making it clear what assholes they are in this thread, I actually might consider it. But the “I’m so much better than you” attitude that’s been thrown around in this thread has even further turned me off. I do plenty well with other search engines, and prefer using them instead. I thought it was unfair for Squink to make a generalization about me, i.e. If you don’t like Google, you certainly must not know how to use a search engine, and are obviously inferior to me. So I made an unfair generalization in return, i.e. Google Freaks need to get off their lazy, computer-addicted asses and go outside for a change. Don’t like it so well when the tables are turned, huh?
You’re missing the point entirely. Of course not. I was using that as a comparison to his assumption that because I don’t care for Google, it makes me an idiot who can’t operate a computer. It was meant to be equally absurd.
What the fuck? Just because some Google-defenders are assholes (IYO) does not make all Google-defenders assholes. There are many, many people on the Dope (heh-heh), some of whom rarely, if ever set foot in the Pit. Go forth to GQ and find out. Because, again, even if they were wont to be an asshole - it ain’t allowed in GQ.
You can use other search engines well enough, but not Google? Um, Google is a search engine… okay I don’t get this one at all. Do you just not like the layout? The colours? Please name a search engine you do like and then I’ll try a search using it and Google to see for myself what the difference is. Thanks.
Myself, and I assumed others here, were using “Google” to mean “search engine”. It’s the biggest and most well known and has pretty much come to mean the thing it is - like “Kleenex” replacing “facial tissue”. Here’s an idea - use Google (the actual one) to find out what the word for this phenomenon is. If it doesn’t work out for you, post for help in GQ and see what happens. Watch what happens if some of the people here show up there - I’m willing to bet that if they do post they’ll be polite and helpful. Be sure to link to it in this thread as well, so we don’t miss it. If it does work, well yea for you, you just got an orange belt in Google-Fu.
Um, Google is a search engine… okay I don’t get this one at all. Do you just not like the layout? The colours? Please name a search engine you do like and then I’ll try a search using it and Google to see for myself what the difference is. Thanks.