Re: Google is apparently now better at searching programming-related questions

2017-03-04 Thread XavierAP via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 4 March 2017 at 11:30:44 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Saturday, 4 March 2017 at 11:29:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: worth considering that worth considering the possibility that* I almost always consider that anything may not be true, and I am definitely considering

Re: Google is apparently now better at searching programming-related questions

2017-03-04 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 4 March 2017 at 11:29:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Saturday, 4 March 2017 at 11:26:31 UTC, XavierAP wrote: Google try their best and they may track individual IP addresses (even dynamic) I am not going to debate this but it might be worth considering that this is simply

Re: Google is apparently now better at searching programming-related questions

2017-03-04 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 4 March 2017 at 11:29:05 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: worth considering that worth considering the possibility that*

Re: Google is apparently now better at searching programming-related questions

2017-03-04 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 4 March 2017 at 11:26:31 UTC, XavierAP wrote: Google try their best and they may track individual IP addresses (even dynamic) I am not going to debate this but it might be worth considering that this is simply not true, as far as search result customization goes.

Re: Google is apparently now better at searching programming-related questions

2017-03-04 Thread XavierAP via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 4 March 2017 at 11:16:17 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Most browsers have a private browsing mode, which separates cache/cookies/etc. from your regular browsing. Doing this will usually allow you to temporarily reset your filter bubble. As Andrej said above, clearing cookies (or

Re: Google is apparently now better at searching programming-related questions

2017-03-04 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 07:51:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Not sure what you mean by private session, but they build up a model of your fields of interest which is why you are getting relevant results. Most browsers have a private browsing mode, which separates cache/cookies/etc.

Re: Google is apparently now better at searching programming-related questions

2017-03-04 Thread XavierAP via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 09:50:58 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 07:51:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: I get those same results when using my regular browser, but when using another browser I get "ad lib" etc, nothing about programming. You may be right. :) I

Re: Google is apparently now better at searching programming-related questions

2017-03-03 Thread Ola Fosheim Grostad via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 18:28:50 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: startpage.com is another way to get clean (or at least clean-ish) results. Although, it's conceivable (probable?) it's really giving out results based on a "user" that's really an aggregate of startpage.com's users.

Re: Google is apparently now better at searching programming-related questions

2017-03-03 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 03/03/2017 04:50 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 07:51:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: I get those same results when using my regular browser, but when using another browser I get "ad lib" etc, nothing about programming. You may be right. :) I mistakenly thought

Re: Google is apparently now better at searching programming-related questions

2017-03-03 Thread Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 3 March 2017 at 07:51:06 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: I get those same results when using my regular browser, but when using another browser I get "ad lib" etc, nothing about programming. You may be right. :) I mistakenly thought the lack of cookies would be enough to get

Re: Google is apparently now better at searching programming-related questions

2017-03-02 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 22:17:44 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: https://9to5google.com/2017/03/02/google-search-technical-queries-programming-languages/ I just used a private session and opened google, searched for "d libs" and the first three results were the DWiki and a Github project,

Re: Google is apparently now better at searching programming-related questions

2017-03-02 Thread Inquie via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 22:17:44 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: https://9to5google.com/2017/03/02/google-search-technical-queries-programming-languages/ I just used a private session and opened google, searched for "d libs" and the first three results were the DWiki and a Github project,

Google is apparently now better at searching programming-related questions

2017-03-02 Thread Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d
https://9to5google.com/2017/03/02/google-search-technical-queries-programming-languages/ I just used a private session and opened google, searched for "d libs" and the first three results were the DWiki and a Github project, https://wiki.dlang.org/Libraries_and_Frameworks,