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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again. (lemmy.ca)
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[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What do you consider advanced googling?

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“Advanced” Site:google.com filetype:pdf -“consider” etc etc.

Using targeted operators to refine your search.

Plenty of resources on it by searching “Google operators”

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well yes, but also just any use of https://www.google.com/advanced_search

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh wow, they made it easier and people still didn’t use it

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's been there for decades. We were taught to use it in middle school (~2003 for me). There used to be a fairly prominent link to the advanced search page from the main Google homepage.

For a while, regular google searches were good enough to find everything you needed, so the skill became less common/important. My guess is that public knowledge of it has just atrophied over time.