Learning how to Google is not trivial.

mark_l_watson 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

So true! About ten years ago Peter Norvig recommended the short Google online course on how to use Google Search: amazing how much one hour of structured learning permanently improved my search skills.

I have used neural networks since the 1980s, and modern LLM tech simply makes me happy, but there are strong limits to what I will use the current tech for.

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donperignon 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you have an entry in your CV saying: proficiency in googling? It difficult not because it is complex, it difficult because Google want it to be opaque and as harder as possible to figure out.

	▲	simonw 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		If anything getting good information out of Google has become harder for us expert users because Google have tried to make it easier for everyone else. The power-user tricks like "double quote phrase searches" and exclusion though -term are treated more as gentle guidelines now, because regular users aren't expected to figure them out. There's always "verbatim" mode, though amusingly that appears to be almost entirely undocumented! I tried using Google to find the official documentation for that feature just now and couldn't do better than their 2011 blog entry introducing it: https://search.googleblog.com/2011/11/search-using-your-term... Maybe if I was more skilled at Google I'd be able to use it to find documentation on its own features?