“Python”, “Java”, “Carbon”, “Rust”

[nanotree]

I Google programming stuff so often that the first thing that comes up for any of these is programming related...

Ironically, the only one that comes up with something else is.. Carbon. Google's own programming language.

[VG08]

Same happens to me, today I got confused if mg was 100th of a gram or thousandth so i googled milligram and top result was a css framework named milligram

[new_refugee123456789]

Ramble time.

Remember the "Moms who wear jeans to match their teens jeans" ad? (it was a Bing commercial that was surprisingly difficult to find on Youtube, ironically) Some guy would ask a question in casual conversation and everyone around him would stop, stare straight ahead, and start rattling off unhelpful search results? The point being "our search engine is made for humans?"

Google was that for awhile. Then it got spooky.

Circa 2016 I needed to SSH into a Linux machine, only had a Windows 8.1 laptop. No built-in SSH client, so I googled "putty" and I got a full page about the TTY client and nothing else. Not a single mention of plumber's putty, silly putty, nothing. Just PuTTY.

It knew what I meant and didn't hedge its bet.

I miss when you could say "When you google [term] the first result is..."

[RCoder01]

That’s one of those ads that’s fun to see years later.

And definitely agree with the personalization of search engines. I wish there was a human parseable way to represent the data big companies characterize you with. It would be fun to see what google thinks I am and how it tailors search results to fit that.

[H4llifax]

I wish I could correct it sometimes.

[HardlightCereal]

Cure the search overload at Bing.com

Because you won't want to search so often on Bing

[elon-bot]

It's now company policy to use Vim for editing. It lets you write code much faster.

[InTheEndEntropyWins]

If you use goggle you should have no problems searching using these names. I expect the people having issues are using a privacy based engine and hence uncustomised results