On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 11:58, Bob Goodwin <bobgood...@fastmail.us> wrote:
> I think that Google has become nearly useless. If my search term > includes a word that triggers their advertising I am overwhelmed with > responses that have little relationship to my query, it amounts to being > overwhelmed with commercials. > A colleague suffered with retinal degeneration that made it impossible to quickly filter out irrelevant/unwanted hits. Google needs to provide a better way to distinguish ads from substance. > I understand that they are trying to accumulate viewings for their > advertisers but it has become a waste of my time. Can anyone suggest an > alternative? > If you use Google enough, and don't click on ads, it gets better. I rarely search for anything non-technical, and get very different results from the same search done by others. Every one and while a search does trigger dozens of ad hits before it comes up with something useful to me. > > -- > Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA > FEDORA-32/64bit LINUX XFCE Fastmail POP3 > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- George N. White III
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