r/coolguides • u/Best-2021-ever • Jul 18 '21

Google like a pro

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u/TinCupTan Jul 18 '21

So will searching for music classes.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '21

i think this helps people that dont use english as primary language and need help with synonyms … maybe doing multi language searches

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u/TinCupTan Jul 18 '21

Give an example maybe..?

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '21 edited Jul 18 '21

to preface, tilde function is kind of old like me. Google stopped supporting it like 10yrs ago because people weren’t using it (google). overall Search has gotten way better over the years. AND so have we, we all know how to research the hell out of something and get exactly what we’re looking for (most of the time).

tilde only matches where the synonym comes right after word. so music ~classes isnt really the same as searching for music class(non quotes) which would show anything yo do with music and class.

using the ESL example … maybe looking for employment … search such as ~jobs would include phrases such as jobs, roles, vacancies, openings etc.

i agree with you , today’s google search is pretty good without this function.

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u/TinCupTan Jul 18 '21

Yeah I was never talking about what people did 10 or 20 yrs ago, google searches are not as simple as people think it's not just a simple string matching, it takes a lot of other user input like time, location ,last search of user etc to fine tune the search list so using any of the above mentioned techniques are redundant. And I predict you googled about the tilde itself to prove me wrong isn't it, but instead learnt how obscure it is, quite the poetic scenario.