"Hey, you know Binary Search Trees?" "Say no more."

People index their .env files on search engines LMAO

* Google announces a prize for hacking it *
* Searches google - how to hack google - *

Me: p
Windows Search: Paint
Me: pow
WS: PowerPoint
Me: powers
WS: Powershell
Me (typing too quickly to notice Powershell is already there): powershell
WS: ummm idk

I need new friends.

Me: Just Google it..

Friend:
Opens browser (home page is some ad-riddled crap)

Types "Google" in address bar

(Google search page opens)

Clicks first result (google.com)

Types search query.

Me: 😶🔫

What your non-tech friend wonder about your search history?

"Windows search, the most robust, helpful feature!" - No one.

You know you are fucked when you see these results starts to come up in your search result.

1. Search on google for an answer
2. Find someone asking the same question on some forum
3. See the question has an answer
4. The answer is "Please search yourself before asking. Thread locked."

This happens too often..

After many years of search we finally found the truth ...

Every code error search ever

Got to work this morning only to find out devRant is now on the list of blocked social media sites here. Let the job search begin.

Fucking Depth first search

Business analyst and client, best "are you kidding" moments

Every time you search "Google" into Google, God kills a kitten.

If you like Google algorithms better, you can always just precede your duckduckgo search with !Google
Returns an encrypted Google search

Well played Allo!

$search = $_GET ['search'];
$table = $_GET ['table'];

$query= mysqli_query ("$search FROM $Table");

😲😲😢😢

This is when Google screws up.

Stack Overflow: Search on Google before asking questions
Google: *Shows stack overflow in top results*

Who else use DuckDuckGo as their default search engine?

Late night thought :

Google is a search engine company having with an operating system(Android) as a side product.

Microsoft is an operating system company having a search engine (bing) as a side product.

Internet doesnt work...
open trouble shooter....
tells me to search online...
-_-

Search history 😃

Single S can make search intresting

Now this is Rare..
Did I just break Google Search? Lol

Ok, do you sometimes feel like you get treated as search engine? I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

My coworker from my previous workplace is messaging me to suggest about good tutorial about a framework that I'm not familiar about.

"Dude, have you heard about Google?"

How often should I change the oil in my search engine?

Cmon Google where's that semantic search...

GOT AN A+ FOR MY LAST PROJECT OF HIGH SCHOOL!!! SO FUCKING HAPPY!!!

(by the way, we built a search engine for this project. A pretty big and fast one too)

I kept ending my Google search with a ;

😂😂

That moment when you search for Microsoft documentation and realize there is none, so you go search for source code and realize there isn't any of that either. 😑

Ma chéries!
What job sites do you recommend?
I want to leave this nightmare behind.

CORTANA AND SEARCH BAR ARE SEPERATING OMFG FINALLY

That moment when you search for ipconfig instead of cmd

Got a job offer that’s ~€1000 more than i make now. But idk i care very much about the company i work at right now so I think I have to do the right thing for my colleagues ..

I’m starting in january, see you cunts and your pile of shit codebase around, i’m out 👋

Whenever I Google Ajax it gives me search results related to the Amsterdam soccer team called ajax. I mean really Google, I search for webdev related stuff all day and you give me this...

Ha ha ha!!!! But true!!

Getting ready for production.

Search: console.log
Replace: //console.log
Search: ////console.log
Replace: //console.log

...

Aaaaaand we're good.

...meanwhile at the Microsoft booth at Prague

Search engine used: Bing

Linkedin search reports started to look interesting 😂

No Man's Sky - more like Fuel Search Simulator

Interview:
Candidate claims being seasoned "senior".

Him: i don't know how the solve this
Me: you have to use binary search
Him: ahhaaa
Me: do you know binary search?
Him: yes
Me: can you please explain binary search?
Him: eghm, hmm, sorry I can't

Recruiter: "I'm looking for someone with 10 years experience in Android."

Me: O_o

Person A: "Add a search box, one where you can type anything in. You know, a hairy search or something"

Person B: "You mean a fuzzy search..."

Search an issue on Google, find a cool GitHub project, try it out.

Search an issue with the new project, find another cool GitHub...

The GitHub Circle.

First rant (hello everyone), just wanted to share my experience of my recent job search.
I had worked about 2 years for one of the bigger companies in my country when I decided I had enough with their bs (I have some decent rants from that company if someone's interested) and I wanted to move back to my hometown. I applied for a few jobs in smaller companies , one which I personally knew the lead programmer of, and he really wanted me to work there. One other company responded quickly and after a couple of interviews I got an offer from them. By that time I haven't heard anything from the first company, so I called them. The CEO was in a meeting but would call me when he was done about am hour later. Didn't hear from him. So I called them again, this time he answered. He seemed really interested and said they were just working some things out, so I said that I needed an offer soon since I already got an offer from another company. His response (without me telling anything about the other company):
"We're not going to be able to match the salary so if you only care about money you should take that. We want you to work for us because you want to, not because of the money"
Well that doesn't pay the bills, so I simply stated:
"I appreciate your honesty and good luck finding anyone"
I hadn't really understood just how bad that was until I told my wife and she pointed it out. The thing is, the company that gave the offer first was really for a junior role, but they increased the proposed salary when they saw my CV. The shitty company was looking for a senior dev. Yeah, good luck finding a senior dev wanting to work without getting properly paid.
Anyway, took the first offer and haven't been happier!

Worst part: being everyone else's Search Bitch. Seriously, how the hell do you have a job in the tech industry when you can't use a fucking search engine, whether it's Google, a builtin search facility or, hell, scrolling down the goddamn page?

I have a feeling the search algorithm isn't up to snuff

I fucking love the vsCode "search everywhere" function, it saved me countless times with chinese frameworks, holy shit.

Question: What does screaming typos in all capitalized letters in a job posting communicate?

So I'm in the market for a laptop and my friends don't understand why I'm being so picky. They don't understand why a laptop that weighs more than 2.0kg is heavy or why a 1366 x 768 isn't good if they have one with the same resolution and it's perfect. This mind might sound really "deep" but I feel like our laptop ends being the same as a canvas is for a painter. We spend 8 hours a day looking and working in these machines trying to create solutions for stuff that the "other people" - non-techies - take for granted. If they can be bloody picky about the pen the use to take notes in their classes and it's just a pen, why can't I be with the tool that's responsible for what I do on a daily basis and love doing?

What if Apple creates a search engine called iSearch ?

Pursuing jobs this morning, find more than one IT Helpdesk postings that require Computer Science degrees, masters preferred. Do you also require you lawn service person to have a degree in botany?

Had to implement a search feature for a client so I did and told him to check it out (it was a LIKE SQL statement)

He tested it out by typing in iPhone and Phone (there was an item called iphone in the database) and he was amazed about the fact it worked for some reason.

A real answer from him:
"it's working.. how is it working?
each item is tagged to multiple keywords without the user doing anything"

I said it's just a text search but I guess I should've said I'm using an advanced AI to extract all possible terms related to the item title.

Google is now my stackoverfl0w search engine

I plan on making a proxy for my home network. Whenever you make a Google search, it will search it on duckduckgo and return the same results, but look as if it were google. Will people notice the difference?

You know your search queries use too specific search syntax when you get this message

Dev colleague when searching something on Windows:

* Click the windows button
* Click the search button next to windows button
* Type the search string
* Wait for results to load
* Use the mouse again to click the first search result.

I try to keep calm, but this annoys me soooooo much... 😫

Hello Google, I know you're watching.
There's still room for improvements in your search algorithm.
Sincerely, you know who I am.

Superb search algorithm ;-p

The search engine that understands programmers. Way to go, Duck Duck

When there's nothing left to search..

#Confession :
Searches something on DuckDuckGo.
Just to be sure that I got best result, searched on Google and checked :/

How did targeted ads become so...accurate?

I did a search for a new service on Google last night.

Today, an ad appears on my Facebook feed highlighting my search term on Google the night before.

I'm not one for filtered searches (hence Safe Search off), though search results like this happen often enough for me to inevitably end up clicking around co-workers.

Meanwhile, I wonder what non-tech people would think if they saw my search history.

I do like Windows, it is a quite good OS nowadays, but for FUCK SAKE, what does it take to fix that CLUSTER FUCK that you call search? You don't have enough people MS or what? Just show me the BLOODY ITEMS that actually contain the words that I typed in!!! While you are at it WOULD YOU MIND LEAVING ME THE FUCK ALONE WITH THE FUCKING WEB RESULTS???

I really hope my parents don't check my search history

As a community of devs I really feel our search feature should have a Regex option...

I don't see all that much point to having it but still...

Get a programming career, they said. The more experience you get, the more people will want to hire you, they said. Well, I'm finding the inverse to be true. Everyone wants a 20-something who knows 100+ programming languages (none of them well) and who'll sleep at the office and kiss butt all day vs. a guy who has a few gray hairs but has seen some things and knows where the bodies are buried.

I wrote a node + vue web app that consumes bing api and lets you block specific hosts with a click, and I have some thoughts I need to post somewhere.

My main motivation for this it is that the search results I've been getting with the big search engines are lacking a lot of quality. The SEO situation right now is very complex but the bottom line is that there is a lot of white hat SEO abuse.

Commercial companies are fucking up the internet very hard. Search results have become way too profit oriented thus unneutral. Personal blogs are becoming very rare. Information is losing quality and sites are losing identity. The internet is consollidating.

So, I decided to write something to help me give this situation the middle finger.

I wrote this because I consider the ability to block specific sites a basic universal right. If you were ripped off by a website or you just don't like it, then you should be able to block said site from your search results. It's not rocket science.

Google used to have this feature integrated but they removed it in 2013. They also had an extension that did this client side, but they removed it in 2018 too. We're years past the time where Google forgot their "Don't be evil" motto.

AFAIK, the only search engine on earth that lets you block sites is millionshort.com, but if you block too many sites, the performance degrades. And the company that runs it is a for profit too.

There is a third party extension that blocks sites called uBlacklist. The problem is that it only works on google. I wrote my app so as to escape google's tracking clutches, ads and their annoying products showing up in between my results.

But aside uBlacklist does the same thing as my app, including the limitation that this isn't an actual search engine, it's just filtering search results after they are generated.

This is far from ideal because filter results before the results are generated would be much more preferred.

But developing a search engine is prohibitively expensive to both index and rank pages for a single person. Which is sad, but can't do much about it.

I'm also thinking of implementing the ability promote certain sites, the opposite to blocking, so these promoted sites would get more priority within the results.

I guess I would have to move the promoted sites between all pages I fetched to the first page/s, but client side.

But this is suboptimal compared to having actual access to the rank algorithm, where you could promote sites in a smarter way, but again, I can't build a search engine by myself.

I'm using mongo to cache the results, so with a click of a button I can retrieve the results of a previous query without hitting bing. So far a couple of queries don't seem to bring much performance or space issues.

On using bing: bing is basically the only realiable API option I could find that was hobby cost worthy. Most microsoft products are usually my last choice.

Bing is giving me a 7 day free trial of their search API until I register a CC. They offer a free tier, but I'm not sure if that's only for these 7 days. Otherwise, I'm gonna need to pay like 5$.

Paying or not, having to use a CC to use this software I wrote sucks balls.

So far the usage of this app has resulted in me becoming more critical of sites and finding sites of better quality. I think overall it helps me to become a better programmer, all the while having better protection of my privacy.

One not upside is that I'm the only one curating myself, whereas I could benefit from other people that I trust own block/promote lists.

I will git push it somewhere at some point, but it does require some more work:
I would want to add a docker-compose script to make it easy to start, and I didn't write any tests unfortunately (I did use eslint for both apps, though).
The performance is not excellent (the app has not experienced blocks so far, but it does make the coolers spin after a bit) because the algorithms I wrote were very POC.
But it took me some time to write it, and I need to catch some breath.

There are other more open efforts that seem to be more ethical, but they are usually hard to use or just incomplete.

commoncrawl.org is a free index of the web. one problem I found is that it doesn't seem to index everything (for example, it doesn't seem to index the blog of a friend I know that has been writing for years and is indexed by google).

it also requires knowledge on reading warc files, which will surely require some time investment to learn.

it also seems kinda slow for responses,

it is also generated only once a month, and I would still have little idea on how to implement a pagerank algorithm, let alone code it.

I think Google have to add something like developer mode to its search engine, so when we search for a technical issue we don't see totally unrelated stuff.

and because the motivation drops down dramatically when you move to the second page if Google search.

Received $1000 bill from google because my navigation app used google maps and the places search/autocomplete API to allow users to search for a place.

Switching to mapbox maps and places api.

#%$£€@&?

Being asked to search in the garbage for a disposed bill.

I am scared.

Google detected unusual traffic from my home network?

When I search anything in incognito mode, this page appears.

No incognito mode -> Google search works.

Feels like an attempt to force me to use my google account.

Seems everyone got a job.. Pokemon job..I remember "how to find a job" was on top in Google search when you type "how to find".. World is going crazy about Pokemon 😄😄

So today I forgot what FTFY meant, then clicked on some FAQ in Google Search. Then I noticed a strange thing. If you open one of the FAQs (last one works best) then collapse it, a few more appear.
I guess this can be repeated indefinitely. I wasn't patient enough to see if it loops like mobile text predictions but it did give me ~130 lines without any repetitions.
Seems like a lightweight alternative to obsessive Wikipedia link following xD

Well...

I really hate search engines sometimes

It continually never ceases to amaze me how many people ask me a question without doing the proper research beforehand. For instance, "How far is the Earth from Jupiter?" How am I supposed to know that? The only thing I'm going to do is Google it and then tell you anyway. Stop asking me stupid questions that you can easily search yourself!

Binary Search Trees

The brand of my jacket shows which search engine I use

After ranting about the Google play search, I just noticed that devRants tag search is even worse. not even close!

Job search is absolutely soul crushing. I can't even.

Hey Google, please stop ignoring 3 out of 5 words in my search queries ever so often. I have been getting tired of the unhelpful note "missing: " followed by the most relevant parts of my question.

Can't wait for Microsoft to add openAI to Bing. While I'm more than sceptical about its use, at least it might end Google's quasi-monopoly in the search engine market and bring back some competition.

WHICH FUCKER CAME UP WITH THE IDEA TO DISABLE CTRL+A IN THE GOD DAMN SEARCH BAR!!!

I FRICKING APPENDED MY SEARCH 3 TIMES BECAUSE OF YOU

Received feedback on a task I made for a job interview (I didn't get a technical interview).

The task was easy with nothing special about it that made me think if that's what the job is like, I don't want to work there. It was a simple web page with search functionality. I did the task anyway.

The feedback I got was useless. It said that I made a complex and an over-engineered solution.
What I made, mind you, was a one endpoint API and a single Vue.js component instead of using jQuery to update the results. That's it. OVER-ENGINEERED!

Complete waste of time.

Fucking search bars. It seems like no one is interested in making search on their website actually work. It always gives me some random shit all while missing relevant results I can find myself by scrolling through menus. It’ll miss stuff even while searching the exact subtext. Every. Single. Time.
If it’s not an open source library’s docs with Algolia, you can forget about their search bar.

Anyone else go incognito when searching for embarrassing programming questions? #theshameisreal

Going to the second page of search results :(

I was working on a section of code and had to make a change to an if-statement. So I searched for "if" to get there... Idiot...

Job search isn't easy.

Not because there aren't any jobs, but because I am afraid of anything that seems remotely like my current toxic workplace.

Fack.

Hey @dfox! Wouldn't it be good to have a way to search for rants, be it using tags, user or content?

When you search one plus 5t..

Lol google

I made a typo searching for Firefox in Win 11 start menu

"firefi" > understood. Firefox first result

"firefix" > idk, want me to fuckin search Bing? Shit.

????????

Search on Windows is annoyingly awful. Like who needs your shitty Bing results before my delayed PC results. This stupid piece of shit gets everything delayed all together!

Goodbye Duckduckgo, DuckDuckGo’s CEO Gabriel Weinberg announced on Twitter that his privacy first search engine will be manipulating its search results to only show users what the company deems not to be “disinformation” about the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Duckduckgo has much better search results than Google..

Advertise junior level salary then proceed to reject you since they're *looking for someone more senior*
🙄

The first search and the search result after I reseted my laptop...

Google search can get fucked in the ass.

Greedy fucking bastards deceptively including ads as normal results.

It used to be just one, but I've seen crazy shit, like 4 ads in one search results. FOUR.

And it's not just the ads. It's all the fucking litter that they put above the results.

I'm talking about all this fucking Google Maps and web cards bullshit.

It takes too much goddamned space, and most of the times I DO NOT GIVE SHITS ABOUT THEM.

And if you want to hide that shit, guess what, you gotta go into the settings. How about you include a fucking corner X that I can click so I can hide immediately hide that shit when I want to?

Now, let's analyze the unholy mess that the image I included is:

The search I did is a simple "html form". Notice that the fucking Adblock is turned ON, yet I still get a "chameleon" ad.

The first real result is from w3schools that also expands on two also hideous things: sitelinks.

Sitelinks are nothing more than spacehogs that I very very rarely click. They look fancy, but they just add CLUTTER.

What are search result n 2 and 3? w3fools again. And I shit you not the next 2 results to those are also w3schools again. So 5 w3fucks links TOTAL.

Wow, google, I'm fucking mindblown, excellent fucking job for a trillion dollar corporation.

Get fucked in the ass.

Whoa, how did I miss the hidden search function?

Dutch devRant meetup, @linuxx using google search? Explain @linuxx

If you currently try to click on a video after doing a google search it will produce this link

The Windows 10 search function.

RIP Instant search result!

When is prime videos going to fix it's search engine....

Not a single one of the 22 results found for "Harry Potter 5th part" was even close to Harry Potter :)

I just know where and how to search.
Does that make "NOT REAL PROGRAMMER" ?

Wow! Just updated my devRant android and it has search! Opens the floodgates to data mining the rapidly growing content. Thanks!!!

Last job search was in mid 2020. I thought I had a pretty good offer: getting 40% more in gross salary. But then I asked some pretty standard/clarifying questions about benefits and all the red flags started coming out 🚩. They really used the pandemic to sell ppl short. TLDR I turned down the offer.

PTO was the dealbreaker. Their PTO was 16 days: 6 holidays plus 10 personal days. Even though any paid time off is PTO, I thought it was pretty gross to count holidays in the PTO bank like that. My friends agreed with me.

Yes, this is a US company.

Then shit hit the fan when I asked about sick days.

Me: What’s the policy on sick time?

Talent/HR: We have a flex time policy, so you don’t have to take time off for a one hour doctor’s appointment.

🤨🚩
I didn’t ask about flex time.

Me: The PTO is really low.

Talent: Well, you could use your sick days for vacation.

🤨🚩🚩

Me: I just asked you about sick time and you didn’t mention sick days. What are these sick days?

Talent: Oh, well technically the personal days are 5 sick days and 5 personal days… [I swear this is what I heard over the phone.]

🤨🚩🚩🚩

Me: 😤 This isn’t going to work.

Talent: I can see about getting you more PTO.

Talent comes back with 5 additional personal days. And it wouldn’t be included in my offer letter it would only be a note in my file. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

The gross thing was this startup was in the healthcare space: it’s a prescription meds delivery service/pharmacy. I know ppl say startups are the “throw money at you and go cheap on benefits” type. But how can you be in a healthcare space and not give ppl decent PTO? And during the pandemic and pre-vaccine existence? They were trying to con me. It was bizarre because it’s not my first job search. I was still employed so I wanted a new job but I wasn’t desperate.

I couldn’t see how anyone would accept that abysmal PTO offer. Maybe if they were really desperate or naive. I suspected this company had a big PTO disparity because I’m positive most employees would have negotiated for more time.

It was hard to turn down the money because I was afraid of not finding a job. Luckily, I did get an offer with really great benefits from a different company later on.

Spent whole day searching on stackoverflow, google, Reddit... Finally did my own way.

Wasted.

In the macOS app "Keychain", if you search for something ("fork" in this case), you can’t delete it from the results directly. To delete it, you need to select it in the list without searching, which of course defeats the purpose.
WTF is this? This can’t be on purpose right?

(Sorry for the bad photo instead of a screenshot)

Urghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

... Job search.

Not really a joke or meme, but not a rant or story. Go to Google search on a PC and search Thanos. Then click on the glove on the right and watch. You're welcome.

Happy Birthday, Google! Long live your Search Engine

I just set duckduckgo as my default search engine. And then I got to know about duckduckgo bang. It's really cool

If you make a tech-related query in Yandex, its pagination is 0-based & bonus I++ 🤓

So I go into Google Search Console to try to determine why its saying pages are not compliant with mobile and whatnot.

3 hours later I come out realizing that what Google REALLY wants is for everyone to build every web page as static HTML with no script tags and never a call to an external website. Just dump all that javascript and css and HTML into one BIG FRIGGIN FILE so our crawler feels satisfied that it's loading everything all in one request.

No CMSes allowed unless GOOGLE built it.

Let's just all revert to HTML 1.0 and be done with it.

An elastic search package for Laravel.

Tf is up with google search? Like yeah it got worse and worse over the years but since the last few months it's actually unusable?

I was able to find everything I always found this one forum answer I needed, on page one.

Now it just grabs every single word and shows me where some of them match. What the fuck?

Same for duckduckgo btw.

When you're looking for that really peculiar problem on Google with mandatory generic words, but the results are everything except what you fucking wanted :
- <the main page of that language>
- <"how to" useless videos with no relation to what you're​ looking​ for whatsoever>
- <some more unrelated stuff>
- <outdated forbidden techniques>
- <Chinese gibberish>
- <something that looks like what you looking for, with no answers>
- "how to summon a demon (not clickbait!)"

At this point you either explore the unexplored lands (aka page 2 and beyond, or using Bing or Yahoo), or accept your fate.

I fucking hate Google, but made the decision to use it as my primary search engine once again.

Reality dictates that I have already adopted it for well over a decade via searches since AllTheWeb existed along with owning enough Android devices to choke a twelve headed dragon whore.

But, here's the main reason: You.com and DuckDuckGo are so dumb as fuck, they might as well be Ron Jeremy's MySpace page.

You.com, for instance, is "completely customizable" by adding un-customizable "apps" without any control over the content it spews into your SERPS.

Neither seems to have interest in no longer padding results with shit you'd take a knife to. At least Google allows me to block those pages or sites from being seen again.

If you happen to live on Planet Earth (which currently seems to exclude 86.8% of the human population) you've been tracked before you even knew what "Big Brother" meant.

If you're looking to safeguard your security, buy a goddamn sword and time travel to remove the Zuckerberg timeline from existence.

I see people ranting about first going to google.com and then searching. The browsers at my workplace won't let you do a search in the address bar, not even in the search field that says Google.
So now I do the same thing at home and realize how stupid it is milliseconds later.
Not frustrating at all.

I was told today by a sr. engineer that applying JavaScript's trim() to a string before executing search is wrong.

His reason? Because certain search terms have spaces in the middle;

i.e "Science Fiction"

😯

You can sort the search results after error. (fehler==error)

So, since almost a week I was trying to get familiar with Algolia which was to be used as API for the search feature in our App. But now, we are going with Elastic Search.

I will have to present some algorithms at our school festival next week.
Any idea for a good real world example to demonstrate how breadth first search works?

When a Google image search on your company name turns up more images of "ME" than the co-founders... Amazing feeling... One of the perks of working in start ups...

Interviewer: Implement Binary Search on a Linked List

Me: * did so on the whiteboard *

Interviewer: *irritated* This is complete BS

Me: Yes, a complete Binary Search 🙂

If I search for "allo" why would you show "duo" as the first result? Seriously

If you like to know more search online later 😠🙅

Is it just me or does the search find a very limited set of rants for everyone? Maybe it finds only the most recent ones?

BS = Binary Search (on LinkedIn)

I love when your pop-up covers fucking search text field

All you need in life is "!nyaa" in your search bar

When elastic search teaches you life lessons

I was just getting frustrated how hard it can be to search on google for very specific subjects when it comes to development. So I thought, why hasn't anyone made a search engine just for developers so you don't get any bullshit in between.
I found apis.io but they only have 1076 documented apis in their db... lets collectively make this better!

The Amazon Music app is so dumb. Instead of simply saying that it can't find anything for your search, it exclaims that they're experiencing difficulties, smh.

Is it just me or Reverse Search (Ctrl+R) is so addictive?

From last few years I have been using shell too much that I will use Ctrl+R to just search for even `ls`.

Google search result font in normal mode and in incognito mode

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!

Repeat internet search

Microsoft introduces co-pilot to Bing search. Google introduces Gemini to search. Still wondering were we are headed:

!Rant

Just had a very productive night with @hahaha1234 and @jappe. Revisited a lot of code, made it simpler, faster, storage efficient and future proof. Our smart search engine is getting somewhere now. Tomorow we will be continue building ofcourse, but first: time to sleep! It is 3:45AM and after that, go running on the beach in Zandvoort.

What the hell is wrong with search engines?

I thought Google had turned to shit. So I decided to get on Duckduckgo as many hyped

It turned out to be way worse. You search for something with a slightly viral keyword, and it only gives you results for the keyword as if you didn't ask it anything else.

Bing is not much better either IMO.

Are we just getting too used to neat answers given by chatGPT, or are the search engines actually being worse this year?

Me: Google, Hello , Wassup?
G: Hi, I can search the web for results.
Me: Okay, Talk to me Im bored.
G: I can search the web for results.
Me: STFU and talk to me. Dont search for results.
G: I can search the web for results.
Me: djkasndakdnasjkdnsadjkasndasnda :/ totally pissed.

I have a new search engine, do you like it? :)

Wow! Updated to new devRant IOS version with new search feature. So good! It's a game changer.

When you are in Visual studio and you want to find something and you do ctrl+f and type in your search and hit enter and realize that the search location was set to "Entire Solution" 😖😖😖

Improvement request: if search doesn’t return anything the search text is erased. It’d be nice if it didn’t so we can amend our search more easily.
Thanks 😀

Google now has only one search result page ! Anyone else noticed?
(Tested on a mobile)

Job search

I want to change my domain name by moving the actual website files to a new domain. It has 4 articles and has about 700 page views per day. Will search engines blacklist the new site for 'copied' content?

rust is a gateway drug to plumbing

thanks, search results

Btw, does someone know a search engine where I can exclude whole pages easily? Or a browser plugin?

Because I want to get rid of all those 'Disable Adblock' pages for good...

Gentle note to aspiring devs, that SO is not hacked. It just their new 90's theme design (More to come).

Search for history icon beside search bar to toggle to normal(Modern) view. Stop Panicking!

Best weirdest search algo?

I have a recurring problem with Typescript where I can't search types for errors because all search engines are flooded with questions and articles about type checker errors.

Do we have any C# devs who have switched to Scala?

I've got a very sweet job offer... at a company that develops in Scala. On the one hand, I'm pretty pleased with my depth of C# knowledge, for a variety of reasons. And I've been targeting .Net shops in my job search.

They know Scala devs are rare, so they are aware they need to train new employees, which is nice. But I don't have strong opinions yet on whether this is a language I want to pivot to.

Does anyone have any thoughts/opinions/experiences?

How can the heck stackoverflow tell me I didn't search for an answer enough myself when their own search algorithm sucks?!

Shouldn't "Bing" be proud?

When people get bored of seeing actual search results in Google, just for the sake of curiosity they try Bing. Do they feel Bing is the ultimate source of truth? 🤔🙄😁

Go home Telegram you're drunk.😂
Traslate: 25 of 6. (Search results)

P.S: I still hate whatsapp, telegram for ever.

Why fucking windows explorer's search is fucking case-sensitive? I could not find any fucking option for it.

Edit : actually it's not but sometimes it couldnot find files

Google carefully naming their language CARBON so that wherever I search it have search CARBON LANGUAGE! :/

So fucking exhausting when you have to change many things in a codebase in a repetitive manner with search and replace and it's not worth the time to write a rool to automate it. One of those special cases where you wish search and replace would support some kind of templating or be variable depending on the search result

The DEVRANT SEARCH could be improved.
Often wrong results are on top, because the algo accepts 1 different character and tags have no priority.

Example: I clicked on the tag "hangover".
Among the top results there were rants with "handover" and "hannover" (German city).
The first rant with the tag "hangover" was at position 18

Wouldnt the search result be better with another logic?
Priority 1: Tags with exactly the same word
Priority 2: Rants with exactly the same word
Priority 3: Tags with similar words/expressions
Priority 4: Rants with similar words/expressions

i feel slightly dirty using google search within duckduckgo browser...

My colleagues and me had opposing views regarding this Advanced search Icon to be either 'fa-filter' or 'fa-search-plus'. We decided to sort it with a coin toss, I lost. 🤤 Which ones you'd prefer?

When you're programming at home and you struggle on something you might search on Stack Overflow.
But when you're at work, what do you do? Ask to other co-workers and maybe search on SO as well?

What's happening here? This is a google search result.

Before learning new language, ideally people search "best IDE for ..." . :-)

Um. ??

I've just received news that Microsoft are to release a brand new search engine in China.

It will be called "Bing Bong".

@dfox
I recently posted a rant containing the tag "$" (php, you know).

But if I search rants with the search pattern "$", the search returns no results.

I guess this has something todo with $ as a special character ;)

Is it a bug or is it a feature? *g*

I just found the best place to hide the bodies I murder.
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Google searche's 2nd page... :D

I swear search has been bastardized just so you have to go ask AI questions

remember in the 90s when everyone thought access to knowledge at your fingertips would lead to world peace. now the Internet gets scrubbed to sell you another knockoff Roomba you don't want

Why is it fast to search using Google than to search a file on my computer using Cortana or File explorer and my hard drive is just about 200GB full yet the Internet is far much bigger?

During an interview:
Using map is wrong. Now implement bisection search.

Types google in browser, google gives search result for "google", clicks that, then main google page opens( search bar in center) , here he starts the actual query