Google suggest vi for Emacs and Emacs for vi

https://www.google.com/search?q=emacs

by letientai299 • 6 years ago

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swiley• 6 years ago

"Did you mean: vi"

That sounds like a "passive aggressive" post from /g/ haha!

There's also this https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1333622758052388864/photo/1

Someone from google said search is just a kind of AI. I think some other people like to say AI is just a random number generator that's good at convincing people there's some intelligence.

eitland• 6 years ago

There's something AI-like going on, it just happens to be significantly dumber than the old thing:

My "favorite" type of search problem is when I as a developer search for Angular mat-table and it shows me tables with mattresses on: Clearly something is going on in there but it is dumber than most dogs and to make matters worse - less obedient too (For 10 years Google couldn't get itself to accept when I asked for verbatim results, they just had to insert some absolutely irrelevant pages into the the top 10 results every time to waste my time. Now I have changed my defaults, DDG fails just as badly on this, but trying in Google is faster from DDG than the other way around and also it feels good.)

globuous• 6 years ago

That's hilarious ! Reminds me of the « french military victories » query that suggested « french military defeats » (which, as a Frenchman myself, pissed me off in a funny way :p)

gspr• 6 years ago

It's also funny how the way you recount the story is the way most people remember it. It is, in fact, not what happened!

What really happened was that someone created a web page that resembled the Google results – and included that suggestion. They managed to get that page to become the number one hit for the search term "french military victories". The idea was then that if someone hit "I'm feeling lucky", it would seem like Google suggested "french military defeats".

The page is still up, although the Google-like appearance is no longer very up to date: https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html

kordlessagain• 6 years ago

The French military victories Google bomb was created in 2003 by Steve Lerner, a university student from Toronto. Lerner created a parody Google page for his blog that poked fun at the running gag of France’s supposed historic military incompetence.

ghostDancer• 6 years ago

Some AI just want to watch the world burn.

vipa123• 6 years ago

This is obviously some plain old I

thrwyoilarticle• 6 years ago

Only on the Emacs link

racl1012• 6 years ago

Don't they all?

zhengyi13• 6 years ago

No. A paperclip maximizer wants to make paperclips.

Ideabile• 6 years ago

Also `recursion` is interesting.

cmehdy• 6 years ago

And askew

qz23• 6 years ago

Clearly the issue is it should suggest vi for emacs and vi for vi :)

ComputerGuru2• 6 years ago

*nvim for vi

qz23• 6 years ago

I'm still using classic vim. Should I move over?

smithza• 6 years ago

Absolutely not. Nor should anyone nod towards the bastard child of the two called spacemacs ... Emacs FTW :)

alexvoda• 6 years ago

Of course not, because they nod towards SpaceVim

WillYouFinish• 6 years ago

I guess this is manually set by some employee, but I wonder if such links might have been also created automatically for some topics.

stewartbutler• 6 years ago

I'm fond of "Alex Trebek" including "Did you mean: Who is Alex Trebek." Nice homage.

https://www.google.com/search?q=alex+trebek

rilindo• 6 years ago

Cheeky, google. What's next, type Windows and you suggest Linux?

devenblake• 6 years ago

Search: install windows 10

Did you mean: install gentoo

marcosdumay2• 6 years ago

No, it's obviously Arch.

Gentoo users are busy doing other things and don't have time to push it into everybody.

elchin• 6 years ago

Also "erlich blachman" and "erlich bachman"

Kyro38• 6 years ago

I had to add hl=en to the url to get the expected result (forcing the page to english)

https://www.google.com/search?q=emacs&hl=en

Crosseye_Jack2• 6 years ago

Do a Barrel Roll

https://www.google.com/search?q=do+a+barrel+roll

lqet• 6 years ago

This one is also nice:

https://www.google.com/search?q=festivus

edgyquant• 6 years ago

Doesn’t seem to work on Safari/iPad

Tsiklon• 6 years ago

It works for me on Safari/iPhone perhaps it’s to do with the size of the window

Crosseye_Jack2• 6 years ago

It does work on iPad but only in mobile viewv (iPhones default to mobile view so thats why it works "out of the box" there). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fgVHP3Nlww

0x1F8B• 6 years ago

Heh I saw this the other day and just assumed that easter egg had always been there.

staticvar• 6 years ago

I thought this was going to be a link to a technical article suggesting the merge of vim and emacs... Vimacs.

rozab• 6 years ago

https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=300

mijoharas• 6 years ago

you mean spacemacs.

throwaways885• 6 years ago

"Steamed hams" is a great one :)

racl1012• 6 years ago

Search for "Star Trek"

Google: Did you mean "Star Wars"?

_verandaguy• 6 years ago

In the same vein, Wikipedia will disambiguate "The one with the whales" to Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.

arusahni• 6 years ago

I miss the days when Google used to be whimsical and weird.

tyingq• 6 years ago

More: https://searchengineland.com/the-big-list-of-google-easter-e...

kazinator• 6 years ago

The Google organization is clearly sensitive to the role of online services play in promoting divisiveness, and doing something about it.

adembudak2• 6 years ago

When I type "string", it returns commercials for g-string models. I love it because it makes me realize I'm living in in a small bubble.

rat873• 6 years ago

If you think that's something try googling c-strings (not at work)

qart• 6 years ago

I got all the search results I expected: handling of strings in C, and a tiny bit of C++ thrown in. What do you get?

MereInterest• 6 years ago

Try working with a library that prefixes all of its class definitions with T and defines its own string class. That was the day that I learned on a work computer that a TString may refer to a type of underwear and not just a library class.

ajaimk• 6 years ago

ha; this says more about your search history than you think :-)

I get results for Java, Molecular Biology, String Instrument repair shops & a video by Shawn Mendes - Strings.

isthatsoup• 6 years ago

I get balls of literal string. I must not live a very exciting life :(

adembudak2• 6 years ago

Busted!

jonjacky• 6 years ago

A friend was seeking information about StripX, a product for stripping insulation from wires. I heard him say, "Note to self - do not type 'strip x' into Google in a family environment."

bryanrasmussen2• 6 years ago

I liked how if you go to vi the page has the following:

Did you mean emacs

A top ad placement for VI(trademarked) Vodafone and Idea which are now trademarked together! So exciting.

A top stories link - Vi (Vodafone) launches Rs 948 family postpaid plan with unlimited benefits: Check details The Indian Express·14 hours ago View all

Which is really great that I can keep up on all the news about Vodafone.

questions people ask about Vi, half of which are about editor and other half not.

at 100% zoom on my mac air I get half of the questions interestingly enough before I have to scroll down.

Wikipedia page about the editor

So I have to scroll down to see the first relevant hit, now of course it makes total sense that vi has other hits, also because in Danish it means we, but the dumb joke on the top makes it sort of silly, especially if I just followed from emacs to vi, because in that case I would think - huh, a vote for ranking results for text editor +10.

Maybe I'm just easily irritated right now.

boogies• 6 years ago

Wikipedia page about the editor
So I have to scroll down to see the first relevant hit

FWIW this is the top result on DuckDuckGo and Searx, and on the latter most of the first screenful of results are about the editor (all if you count https://vi-editor.com/). Interestingly the first screenful of searx results all come from DDG (the next has many from reddit), but the pages are definitely different.

Edit: and on Startpage! So apparently your results may just be the result of Google trying to create a personalized filter bubble for you.

oceliker• 6 years ago

In US, behind a pi-hole, all results on the first page except one are directly vi-related. Not sure if this might have something to do with the fact that I've been searching spacemacs keybindings nonstop in the past 2 weeks.

strombofulous• 6 years ago

This definitely has something to do with your (or my!) search bubble because the top link for `vi` for me is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi, followed by "Basic vi Commands - Colorado State University" and "How to Use the vi Editor - University of Washington" (vim.org is the 4th link)

pwinnski• 6 years ago

I don't normally use Google.

I search for 'vi' and all of my links are about the editor.

You experience is clearly customized for you.

This is why I don't normally use Google.

bryanrasmussen2• 6 years ago

why is it whenever google customizes something for me they do such a bad job at it! what's wrong with me! /teary teen voice

cuddlybacon• 6 years ago

I have to turn adblock off to see many of these. Strange.

newdude116• 6 years ago

"I love emacs. Extremely powerful. Just lacks a decent editor"

whyfy• 6 years ago

Meanwhile, nano doesn't get that treatment

Google suggest vi for Emacs and Emacs for vi

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