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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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Now that search engines suck, people will start to bookmark again. (lemmy.ca)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most people don't know advanced googling anymore, even though it largely still works.

As far as people not using bookmarks, they just refuse to close tabs until they're sure they'll never return to a given site. People even obsess over tree style tabs and other tab organizing add-ons or features rather than, y'know, using bookmarks with folders which can already handle all of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What do you consider advanced googling?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

“Advanced” Site:google.com filetype:pdf -“consider” etc etc.

Using targeted operators to refine your search.

Plenty of resources on it by searching “Google operators”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well yes, but also just any use of https://www.google.com/advanced_search

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh wow, they made it easier and people still didn’t use it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's been there for decades. We were taught to use it in middle school (~2003 for me). There used to be a fairly prominent link to the advanced search page from the main Google homepage.

For a while, regular google searches were good enough to find everything you needed, so the skill became less common/important. My guess is that public knowledge of it has just atrophied over time.