What would we do without a search engine as good as Google...

NiCkNaMe

NiCkNaMe

NiCkNaMe

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Seriously.... is there anything that you can't fix by doing a quick Google?

Get home tonight to find a puddle of water under the fridge (that is about 2 weeks out of warranty :rolleyes:)... open it up and two of the super cool lights are flashing. Great. Did a quick google, couldn't find much other than contact Hotpoint - so I gave the hotline a quick call and they wanted £150 to sort (even to take a look)

Told them too do one and did some basic troubleshooting... powered it down, gave all the vents a clean, etc, etc to no avail.

Then did some 'advanced googling' :p and found a post telling me to turn it off... turn both temp gauges down to 0, turn it on, then turn them both up to half and press the super cool button.

Lo and behold it works! Not only saved me a call out, but saved all the meat I had invested in tonight :o :D
 
It's a double-edged sword for the lower classes to be fair - on the one hand all the low skilled menial occupations like mechanics, plumbers etc which were considered 'skilled' due to simple lack of knowledge are now do-able with a quick google. On the other hand, there's more work fixing the bodge-jobs made after trying to do something by Google :p
 
Google > *.

I'd found a useful MS hotfix earlier on my laptop, so then went to install it on a desktop. Brand new install so has IE at it's default with Bing for search. Type in KB2519984 and I kid you not the MS download page was not even on the first page of results!
 
Use other better search engines that don't try and predict what you want, and as such wreck the results. Have a odd ordering system and looks spammy and advertised filled.
 
I'd like to think we'd have a good honest search engine that doesn't rely on these privacy-invading filter bubbles.
 
Profusion was my favourite engine and I used it over Google for many years. I also went for the meta engines like Hotbot, 4-in-1 and Dogpile. Google is best for its image search, now that it finally allowed you to force results greater than wallpaper size.
 
Rich_L said:
It's a double-edged sword for the lower classes to be fair - on the one hand all the low skilled menial occupations like mechanics, plumbers etc which were considered 'skilled' due to simple lack of knowledge are now do-able with a quick google. On the other hand, there's more work fixing the bodge-jobs made after trying to do something by Google :p
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High horse - get off.
 
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