• @[email protected]
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    Aliexpress search is just the worst in that regard. “Hey I want to buy microchip X123457” - “Sure, here are some other totally different chips and a few iPhone cases for you”.

    Without site:aliexpress.com and search engines I would never find anything on there.

    • I Cast FistOP
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      Not to mention that it changes the actual results if you decide to use any of its shitty filters or even order by price. Like, if your search result had 4 pages and you order by price, suddenly it’s now 2 pages. My bet is shady assholery to fuck with sellers that aren’t paying enough, much like Amazon

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    The category filters of electronics distributors used to be good (some still are). But then they started letting business people categorize the products, and now finding stuff without having a part number is basically a lottery.

    • @[email protected]
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      hell, even with a part number, you still have to sort through a bunch of irrelevant stuff. I swear they must just “select all” when assigning tags to phone cases and stuff.

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        Fuck phone cases and bad search. I just got the Sony Xperia 10 V. The whole Sony Line is just changing the number to 1, 5, or 10, and the Roman numeral from I to V (and growing).

        Good luck finding anything. It literally took me hours (including advanced Google Fu) to find out that the style of case I want doesn’t exist for my model. (But the 10 IV has it.)

        Is there a site that categorizes cases by exact model? I feel like it shouldn’t be this hard.

  • @[email protected]
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    Go to Google and search the site from orbit.

    First few results are keyword sponsor ads from the same site taking you to their front page instead of what you searched for.

    • @[email protected]
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      eBay really has one of the best search engines around, IMO.

      Once you know how to use parenthesis, quotes, and minus, you can build very precise queries.

  • @[email protected]
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    👊Hold up, buddy! 👊🤔Spotted your Gru’s Plan meme 🤔👉, but quick tip: ✌️Keep the text in the last two panels the same for that slick punchline! ✌️😂Consistency is the key to meme magic. 🗝️👌Give it a shot, and you’ll nail it! 👍😄

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      I don’t get the downvotes. You expressed that it differs from the usual meme formula but it’s very obvious that you aren’t serious. And it’s kinda funny reading the text whilst imagining those bullshit emojis. (At least I hope that the emojis weren’t serious)

      • @[email protected]
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        yeah this kind of sarcastic post was a pretty common trope back in the day on r/copypasta, so I wanted to bring some of that back

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    Semi-related: how do you exclude a domain from a single search without blocking it from all results in settings? Aka the thing- and -site:[domain url] used to do??

  • DreamButt
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    I don’t think I’ve ever added the ability to filter via the text field on any search system I’ve built. Normally there’s checkboxes and categories though

    • I Cast FistOP
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      87 months ago

      Which are often lacking. If I want to search for everything except brand X, I have to check the box for every other brand, which is a hassle. If I’m looking for “pirate costume” and I don’t want anything related to One Piece, there’s no checkboxes, or anything, to help me.

      • TAG
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        Not even the Google search team. You can no longer negate search terms in Google or Bing or DuckDuckGo. Any suggestions for a better search engine?

        • JoeCoT
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          I’ve been using Kagi for 2 months and swear by it. It might feel silly paying for a search engine, but I’m now the customer instead of the product, and I can customize my searches the way I want.