Comment by OnionBlender
7 months ago
I'm so sick of search systems ignoring or changing my search string. LinkedIn is especially bad for this. If I search for "OpenGL", many of the results don't contain the one word I searched for. Many of the results are "promoted" jobs from Microsoft that have nothing to do with graphics.
On Apple’s job site, it will include OpenCL jobs in addition to OpenGL.
It is probably more efficient for my time and sanity to create a web scraper and run my own searches offline. At least for searching for job postings.
I agree. Fuzzy searches are a bane of my existence. Like trying to search amazon for any specific detail about a product. All you get are basically the same promoted crap from a non-specific search. I just want my results.
It would be nice to have some generic/universally accepted syntax for fuzzy/non-fuzzy(?) search behavior.
e.g. something like "exact match for this string" and ~(similar or fuzzy match for this string)
I switched to using DuckDuckGo primarily, and it's now fuzzy by default. It returns lots of results that doesn't contain more than the most generic word in my query, and I always get this one hit for a completely unrelated site just because it has the name of my town in the headline.
Sure you can force it by using "foobar" but yeah, searching the web isn't what it used to be.