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submitted 4 months ago by JPDev@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 84 points 4 months ago (2 children)

With misinformation about and how shit Google search is lately, it's definitely a skill worth learning.

[–] palordrolap@kbin.run 61 points 4 months ago (2 children)

"I used to be able to Google like you, but then they changed what Google was and now what I can do doesn't work, and what you have to do seems weird and scary to me."

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 24 points 4 months ago

I used to google onions, because it was the style at the time

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 9 points 4 months ago

I used to be able to Google like you

…but then I got enshittification in the knee

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

For reals. I never bookmarked anything as I'd just regoogle what I was looking for but as of six months ago I can't find shit. It's like it never existed and all I get is spam websites that's are skinned to looks genuine. I'm honestly going back to Askjeeves.com.....

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 7 points 4 months ago

Try DuckDuckGo - I believe its selling point is that it is not as bad as Bing.:-)

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah. It shows me first result article that copypasta from other place which is straight out wrong. Went to ddg and it start to show result that makes sense. It's no wonder people look up reddit thread for info. It also doesn't show too much oldschool forum, or at least it's buried down 20page later. It's unusable.

[–] armchair_progamer@programming.dev 55 points 4 months ago

“I’ve got 10 years of googling experience”.

“Sorry, we only accept candidates with 12 years of googling experience”.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 54 points 4 months ago (2 children)

To be fair you could call this "search optimisation" and the people on Linkedin would eat this up

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 months ago

I might actually put this under my skills. I'm fairly good at googlefu.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 6 points 4 months ago

Or prompt engineering.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 21 points 4 months ago

Holy shit, this guy only Google searches with {google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 10 points 3 months ago

Definitely a senior.

[–] sheepishly@fedia.io 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

adding googling to my cv rn

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Might add Duckduckgoing or web searching

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 2 points 4 months ago

Prompt engineering is a better looking term these days.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Holy hell!

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

New job skill just dropped

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 months ago

Lucky guy. Tolerance for calling a spade a spade is a big green flag.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I make myself stand out by phrasing it as "my google-fu is strong."

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

If you apply for Microsoft, you gotta say bing-fu.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I've had a person not get what is google-fu

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

he can find all the memes, all the lost media and all the classified documents