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throwaway219450 • yesterday at 10:32 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

The big selling point of Google used to be that their fuzzy search was significantly better than just about anyone else, and you could do advanced query filters. Now if you do that, because showing the user zero results is unacceptable, you’ll get all sorts of crap that “doesn’t contain” your query - the results say so!

But anthropomorphic interfaces have been around for a while, from Clippy to the Windows 10+ installers that refer to the royal We during setup.


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throwaway27448 • today at 1:34 AM

Not to mention most of those "advanced query filters" simply aren't functional anymore.