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Would you date a workaholic? [DuckDuckGo Sociology] (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] -3 points 3 months ago (10 children)

So I decided to ask the internet (DuckDuckGo (DDG) specifically): Am I dating a workaholic?

Why are you asking a search engine questions like it's an AI?

Like you could phrase it as a question:

How to tell if dating workaholic

Or keywords:

Dating workaholic

Or even get fancy and use boolen operators...

But this:

Am I dating a workaholic?

How the fuck is a search engine going to answer that question? It can't, it'll just just throw up random articles

There's nothing deeper than that here

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

    1. All your different search suggestions return similar results, so that's not all that's happening here.

    2. A different TOPIC returned different results.

    Maybe you need to re-evaulate your whole thing regarding this issue. Search engines have gotten much smarter at being dumb in the past 10 years. Like if you are every troubleshooting anything but THE MOST common issue, you are absolutely fucked.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Never mind the fact DDG actually has an AI option.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    Buddy...

    I'm sorry, I didn't know I had to break it down like this...

    Am I dating a workaholic?

    How will a search engine be able to reply with a yes/no?

    It can't.

    Like if you are every troubleshooting anything but THE MOST common issue, you are absolutely fucked.

    It's because of what you're typing into them...

    Best of luck, hopefully someone else offers up their time to help you, I have a feeling this isn't going to be the only time, and I'm never even going to see any of your other posts now.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Well, since that guy's blocked me, is there anything wrong with asking a question of a search engine? Two things are:

    1. SEO might optimize for the questions the site answers.
    2. It doesn´t matter how you phrase it, search engines today pull you towards the same results from an average of your keywords. I've gotten really frustrated trying to filter search results the way I used to do because all the results are the same no matter what I try.

    I wasn't particularly looking for testimony--that's what I'm getting here--more a nuanced description of workaholism because she's self-employed and that makes things a little hazier than someone who is "forced" to be at the office for 60 hours a week.

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