<div dir="ltr"><div>Not that you probably want to hear this, but I'm still having fun with the Qwant search engine, but for privacy reasons more than anything else.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.qwant.com">https://www.qwant.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 07:49, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Now it seems to highlight bible unless I quote it (on DuckDuckGo).<br>
<br>
If I quote multiple things it feels free to ignore the terms I care<br>
about most.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wordpress.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wordpress.org</a> "verbum" "comment form" -"bible"<br>
<br>
gives me <br>
<a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/comment_form/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/comment_form/</a><br>
<a href="https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/comments-in-wordpress/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/comments-in-wordpress/</a><br>
<br>
as the top two results. (Note that I am trying <a href="http://wordpress.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wordpress.org</a> and not<br>
<a href="http://wordpress.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wordpress.com</a> here). Neither of these top two results appears to<br>
contain the string "verbum". <br>
<br>
This string must exist someplace, although maybe only as a substring.<br>
(I am pretty sure I have seen this phenomenon even when searching for<br>
standalone phrases.) It is being generated in the <a href="http://wordpress.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wordpress.com</a> source<br>
code somehow. So I guess I have to find the source code. Why isn't any<br>
search engine willing to show me the source code repo?<br>
<br>
I guess I am just too dumb to know how to use a search engine in 2023.<br>
It is natural to blame the victim here, but I don't think my<br>
expectation that "If I quote something then make sure it is in the<br>
search results" is all that unreasonable. <br>
<br>
I do not have documented evidence of this, but I feel that sometimes<br>
if I appease the search engine gods somehow I will get subsequent<br>
search results that DO contain the string, which means the string<br>
exists in the search engine indices, but won't give me pages with<br>
those strings when I ask for them directly.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
- Paul<br>
<br>
<br>
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 05:11:21AM -0400, John Steel wrote:<br>
> I searched duck duck go with that query and initially it was including bible (and highlighting it like I wanted to see it) but when I replaced the minus character it worked. Maybe somewhere along the line it was changed to a Unicode character? I also do see verbum in the results. <br>
> <br>
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2023, at 11:19 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:<br>
> > I don't know what happened to search engines, but they are getting<br>
> > worse and worse and I am getting more and more annoyed.<br>
> > <br>
> > <a href="http://wordpress.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wordpress.com</a> recently changed its comment form. You used to be able<br>
> > to enter in an email and name without Javascript, and you could submit<br>
> > a comment. Now they have changed to something that uses the string<br>
> > "verbum" in its class names. I want to know what this is so I can turn<br>
> > it off. So I search for something like<br>
> > <br>
> > <a href="http://wordpress.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wordpress.com</a> comment form "verbum" -bible<br>
> > <br>
> > (since there is some bible site that pollutes the results).<br>
> > <br>
> > When I search on DuckDuckGo or Google or Bing, none of the search<br>
> > results contain the string "verbum", even though in all three putting<br>
> > the terms in scare quotes is supposed to search for the exact phrase.<br>
> > This happens all the time. I try to search for exact strings and get<br>
> > nonsense. I am so tired of it. Is there a search engine I can use that<br>
> > will actually find pages containing the strings I am searching for? If<br>
> > so what is it?<br>
> > <br>
> > - Paul<br>
> > <br>
> > <br>
> > -- <br>
> > Events: <a href="https://feeds.off-topic.kwlug.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://feeds.off-topic.kwlug.org</a> <br>
> > Housing: <a href="https://unionsd.coop" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://unionsd.coop</a><br>
> > Blog: <a href="http://pnijjar.freeshell.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://pnijjar.freeshell.org</a><br>
> > <br>
> > _______________________________________________<br>
> > kwlug-disc mailing list<br>
> > To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org</a><br>
> > with the subject "unsubscribe", or email<br>
> > <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org</a> to contact a human being.<br>
> > <br>
<br>
-- <br>
Events: <a href="https://feeds.off-topic.kwlug.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://feeds.off-topic.kwlug.org</a> <br>
Housing: <a href="https://unionsd.coop" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://unionsd.coop</a><br>
Blog: <a href="http://pnijjar.freeshell.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://pnijjar.freeshell.org</a><br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
kwlug-disc mailing list<br>
To unsubscribe, send an email to <a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc-leave@kwlug.org</a><br>
with the subject "unsubscribe", or email<br>
<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc-owner@kwlug.org</a> to contact a human being.<br>
</blockquote></div>