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[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 months ago
[-] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

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

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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.

this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2024
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