Like, today, or the pre-chatgpt age where all the common questions have been spammed to death by SEO farms?
Google's search has been frustratingly awful for quite some time now, long before AI.
Today I googled "emacs" to get the download link.
Top of the search result page: "Did you mean: vim"
Felt like I was being trolled.
That's an Easter egg. It goes the other way too (vim -> did you mean emacs).
Back in the day, more people might have seen something like that as a clever easter egg.
These days, we default to
"Day 3,449: google's still broken. what was i thinking?"
It's an Easter egg. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25371017
Google's search has been frustratingly awful for quite some time now, long before AI.
Today I googled "emacs" to get the download link.
Top of the search result page: "Did you mean: vim"
Felt like I was being trolled.
That's an Easter egg. It goes the other way too (vim -> did you mean emacs).
Back in the day, more people might have seen something like that as a clever easter egg.
These days, we default to
"Day 3,449: google's still broken. what was i thinking?"
It's an Easter egg. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25371017