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That may have been what search engines were for, but Google changed that. Very few people have the patience any more to try multiple queries to get an answer. When DDG fails, as it inevitably does, I don't spend time refining my query: I repeat the search on Google and get my answer.


It's true.

But Google fails as well.

Most of the world population is not native english speaker.

Try "attore che recita la parte del giornalista in spiderman" (the actor that plays the journalist in spiderman) in Italian

- Spider-Man: Homecoming - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org)

- James Franco - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org)

- Spider-Man film: tutti gli attori | Popcorn Tv (https://popcorntv.it)

- Martin Sheen, dieci ruoli per scoprire un grande attore ... (https://www.consigli.it)

Or the simplified version "attore che fa il giornalista in spiderman" (same meaning as before, just more down to earth)

- J. Jonah Jameson - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org)

- J. Jonah Jameson - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org)

- Spider-Man: Far From Home, nel cast anche l'attore ... (https://tg24.sky.it)

Refining is still a very present need, it's simply that for common searches on common topics in english it's less so...

It's more or less the same in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese... I can't even imagine the results in languages like Arabic, Indonesian or Balinese.

Local, culture aware, search engines are the future, despite Google efforts, the generalist "one size fits all" search engine is not.




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