Comment by bryanrasmussen
6 years ago
I liked how if you go to vi the page has the following:
Did you mean emacs
A top ad placement for VI(trademarked) Vodafone and Idea which are now trademarked together! So exciting.
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Which is really great that I can keep up on all the news about Vodafone.
questions people ask about Vi, half of which are about editor and other half not.
at 100% zoom on my mac air I get half of the questions interestingly enough before I have to scroll down.
Wikipedia page about the editor
So I have to scroll down to see the first relevant hit, now of course it makes total sense that vi has other hits, also because in Danish it means we, but the dumb joke on the top makes it sort of silly, especially if I just followed from emacs to vi, because in that case I would think - huh, a vote for ranking results for text editor +10.
Maybe I'm just easily irritated right now.
> Wikipedia page about the editor
> So I have to scroll down to see the first relevant hit
FWIW this is the top result on DuckDuckGo and Searx, and on the latter most of the first screenful of results are about the editor (all if you count https://vi-editor.com/). Interestingly the first screenful of searx results all come from DDG (the next has many from reddit), but the pages are definitely different.
Edit: and on Startpage! So apparently your results may just be the result of Google trying to create a personalized filter bubble for you.
This definitely has something to do with your (or my!) search bubble because the top link for `vi` for me is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi, followed by "Basic vi Commands - Colorado State University" and "How to Use the vi Editor - University of Washington" (vim.org is the 4th link)
In US, behind a pi-hole, all results on the first page except one are directly vi-related. Not sure if this might have something to do with the fact that I've been searching spacemacs keybindings nonstop in the past 2 weeks.
I don't normally use Google.
I search for 'vi' and all of my links are about the editor.
You experience is clearly customized for you.
This is why I don't normally use Google.
why is it whenever google customizes something for me they do such a bad job at it! what's wrong with me! /teary teen voice