"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
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In message , alan
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On 26/06/2014 18:37, polygonum wrote:
On 26/06/2014 18:08, newshound wrote:

Google is your friend

I get the feeling that no-one thinks that any more.



I'm finding that Google less useful for finding anything these days. The
first Google page is full of hits for other web sites doing searches of
multiple search engines and coming up with items from companies at twice
the recommended retail price. Alternatively, hundreds of reviews for the
things you want to buy but with very few hits for anyone selling them.

For me, Google seems to have become almost unusable. There now seems to be
no way of turning off the once-optional 'predictive text' function (well,
you can try, but it has no effect). As a result, from the first letter you
type in, it gets excited and shoots off searching for what IT thinks you
might be looking for.

After finding (literally) millions of hits on something you're not looking
for, it then runs out of puff, seizes up, and displays an 'unresponsive
script' message.

Eventually, it usually settles down, allows you to complete your typing,
and finally condescends to search for what you REALLY want.

I get the reverse effect. Most of what I am searching for shows up below
the search box as I am typing it in for me to select the one I want from.

When it doesn't, like say with the CDC-713 vdu I was looking for the
details for this morning, there were no hits on the first page because
that turns out to be a color code for something or other, but there
were useful hits on the next page.

The only thing I ever have much trouble with is when there
is no unique keyword that can be used with other qualifiers.
Like say some detail about MS Access forms where the word
access isnt unique at all.

I also had some difficulty with entering that pseudo number to
enable caller ID display on a voip capable phone, to see exactly
what that code was supposed to do, but don't get that often.