On Fri, 2020-12-18 at 10:57 -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote: > I think that Google has become nearly useless. If my search term > includes a word that triggers their advertising I am overwhelmed > with responses that have little relationship to my query, it amounts > to being overwhelmed with commercials. I find that it's artificial intelligence is getting worse. A couple of examples: I searched for potato bake recipes without ham, and every recipe it found had ham in it. The words with or without are quite important for getting a search right. I hope they never get involved in AI for futuristic police robots, because saying "don't shoot" is going to get you shot. I search for service manuals for equipment, and you can put the exact model number into the search, and only few of the results are even close to your search term. After the first page, I can't see any connection between my search terms and what it returns. YouTube's becoming next to useless thanks to the same thing (e.g. you look for a song by title, and completely unrelated things return), as well as their advertising greed. Being inundated with the same annoying adverts at the start and end of every clip, and in the middle, makes it worse than watching commercial television. If I've skipped the same advert more than once it ought to be able to tell that I'm not interested. It's all just a money-making exercise for them, getting people to provide them with free content so they can make money from you. The only way to avoid the adverts is to pay them. Even if you are one of their content providers, you're still stuck with adverts unless you pay them. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.6.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 17 13:59:11 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
