With misinformation about and how shit Google search is lately, it’s definitely a skill worth learning.
“I used to be able to Google like you, but then they changed what Google was and now what I can do doesn’t work, and what you have to do seems weird and scary to me.”
I used to google onions, because it was the style at the time
I used to be able to Google like you
…but then I got enshittification in the knee
For reals. I never bookmarked anything as I’d just regoogle what I was looking for but as of six months ago I can’t find shit. It’s like it never existed and all I get is spam websites that’s are skinned to looks genuine. I’m honestly going back to Askjeeves.com…
Try DuckDuckGo - I believe its selling point is that it is not as bad as Bing.:-)
Yeah. It shows me first result article that copypasta from other place which is straight out wrong. Went to ddg and it start to show result that makes sense. It’s no wonder people look up reddit thread for info. It also doesn’t show too much oldschool forum, or at least it’s buried down 20page later. It’s unusable.
“I’ve got 10 years of googling experience”.
“Sorry, we only accept candidates with 12 years of googling experience”.
To be fair you could call this “search optimisation” and the people on Linkedin would eat this up
I might actually put this under my skills. I’m fairly good at googlefu.
Or prompt engineering.
Holy shit, this guy only Google searches with {google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s
Definitely a senior.
adding googling to my cv rn
Might add Duckduckgoing or web searching
Prompt engineering is a better looking term these days.
Holy hell!
New job skill just dropped
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Lucky guy. Tolerance for calling a spade a spade is a big green flag.
I make myself stand out by phrasing it as “my google-fu is strong.”
If you apply for Microsoft, you gotta say bing-fu.
I’ve had a person not get what is google-fu
he can find all the memes, all the lost media and all the classified documents
