Google, farewell.

[Bettatail]

been using google for years now, but...

This is what I search today "annual rain water amazon",.
I was confused by the search results.

another search using bing give me what I want.

[steven p]

They have a nasty habit of leaving out KEY words in searches...

[xmas_one]

Try "annual rainfall Amazon." Be specific.

[blink]

Originally Posted by xmas_one

Try "annual rainfall Amazon." Be specific.

This.

rainfall or precipitation would be the terms to use to get what you want although google should be smart enough to figure it out just by seeing "annual" "rain" and "amazon".

But, that being said, often when the internet doesn't give you what you want you gotta get the ol thesaurus out or check your spelling/grammar.

[bud29]

Anyone visited the site bigiton.com? You basically make 5 searches and pick which results you like best.....then it tells you which search engine suits you better. It is pretty easy to know which is bing and which is google, because nearly all of the bing results have a bunch of pictures with them.

[Slingo]

Hey don't forget you can get paid (kinda) using bing for searches. I've redeemed around $25 worth of points the last year for amazon gift codes. They have other rewards too. Not bad for just searching the web.


http://www.bing.com/explore/rewards

[samee]

googles been actin weird recently. I enter search words and it searches similar but past words I already searched. I have to do it again to continue. Its weird.

[HD Blazingwolf]

I concur, google doin funny stuff.. its gettin too smart

[mach_six]

I wonder if this is the reason why my fellow IT co-workers can never find the answer to errors on their own.

I enter the error message exactly and never failed to find what I was looking for and wondering what do they type...

IME, Google still provides the best matchines for what I search for.

[HD Blazingwolf]

Originally Posted by mach_six

I wonder if this is the reason why my fellow IT co-workers can never find the answer to errors on their own.

I enter the error message exactly and never failed to find what I was looking for and wondering what do they type...

IME, Google still provides the best matchines for what I search for.

why are IT coworkers looking for solutions on google?
if google provides the answer, this pretty much negates your job correct?

[mach_six]

Originally Posted by HD Blazingwolf

why are IT coworkers looking for solutions on google?
if google provides the answer, this pretty much negates your job correct?

If you put it that way then pretty much any profession is at risk.

I can find how-to or whatever to fix my car but as easy it may be for me, the majority will not feel competent in performing it. I perform simple maintanence but some things that I know or feel unconfortable I bring to a mechanic because I need my car to go to work.

Same thing applies here, the majority of people out there have no inclination to do it themselves. If they were, would we have so many services or business to cater to that need?

In our case, depending on the issue, the user may not have the access right to fix it most of the time. Application support is one of my duty because I work on deploying it to the desktop environment. We do upgrades every few years on software so it isn't unreasonable to search for the answer but it is unreasonable to not attempt to try it find it yourself especially being paid to provide the support.

[scapegoat]

Originally Posted by HD Blazingwolf

why are IT coworkers looking for solutions on google?
if google provides the answer, this pretty much negates your job correct?

no. google may provide an answer, such as how to retrieve and loop through a json object. But implementing it, or even understanding what you're looking at, is not necessarily as easy or straight forward as copy and paste.

if it was as easy as just googling the answer, anyone could do it. but it isnt.

[Captivate05]

Originally Posted by scapegoat

no. google may provide an answer, such as how to retrieve and loop through a json object. But implementing it, or even understanding what you're looking at, is not necessarily as easy or straight forward as copy and paste.

if it was as easy as just googling the answer, anyone could do it. but it isnt.

+1

My husband was an IT tech, and if he doesn't know how to fix the problem, he finds a way. He understands what he's looking at and can make educated guesses, quantum leaps even, on how to proceed with it.

I, on the other hand, might as well be looking at ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. I can't fathom it. That might be because I don't give a hoot about it and I don't designate any brain space to learn it. I use it up on my own job.

[HD Blazingwolf]

Originally Posted by Captivate05

+1

That might be because I don't give a hoot about it and I don't designate any brain space to learn it. I use it up on my own job.

You just nailed it!
Its because most people dont care to learn it. Google will tell you how to solve almost any problem, given enough research time. What counts is how hard/ how much time someone wants to invest into learning the processes neccessary to complete the given problem.

Every job is at stake to the internet dont be fooled. Its why every job should focus on customer service at this point, thats what the internet doesnt have at this point.
Do your job well, with a smile on your face, and be courteous to those you are working with and you thrive, not and you fail, this is the decline of many recent businesses. Its the reason we kick our competitors butts in town even thoug we have a smaller workforce in a. less frequented location

[GeToChKn]

I did your two search on google and bing and the only reason bing gave any better results is because if you look, it omits the word water from your search and searches for "annual rain amazon", if you click to only search for "annual rain water amazon", you get results similar to google.

Asking annual rainfall amazon on either one would have given you millions of answer. If you're looking for rainfall, type rainfall, not rain water, then you get a bunch of people named rainwater in the results.

This isn't the fault of google, you just didn't ask the right question, it's not a mind reader.