RSS and bookmarks. I never stopped. Firefox even searches first on my bookmarks and offers them before the online search option.
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Never stopped using them!
Excuse me, my 783 loose bookmarks and I would like to have a word.
Bookmarks and search engines serve different purposes, though search engines can replace bookmarks. But the main purpose of a search engine is to find sites you've never been to before because they contain specific information you're looking for.
I'm saying previously you may have not bookmarked it because you'd be confident you can easily find that info again. Now that search sucks, you may not be able to find it again. So you'll bookmark good information.
I've literally been doing this* since 2021
*again
I didn't realize people stopped....bookmarks are incredibly useful.
People stopped bookmarking?
Trust me, most people don't even know what that star in the URL bar is for
It's the Yelp review, duh.
Google has been so bad it's making bing better. No seriously, bing is better than Google.
Until SEO comes for Bing...
Arg.... I hope they don't. Mess up google. I don't care.
Yeah I moved to bing a year ago, it genuinely is.
Its pretty good. At least for now the results is not garbage on the top links.
I never stopped bookmarking.
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I bookmark so much these days. Other times I collect links with better descriptions in Joplin.
Wtf? Yall have been using Search Engines to go to websites you've been to before? Why even, just type the url in...
"ne" presses enter for netflix.com
"l" presses enter for lemmy.world
Auto completing urls are so fast.
Even better, save specific search engines with shortcut codes: type 'w' + , start typing to search on Wikipedia.
It’s a level of hell to watch other people continue to type out the full URL while the auto complete is already there, until they make that one typo towards the end and hit enter before you had a chance to tell them.
I accidentally used chrome the other day.
Tried to go to Gmail with "gm" enter.
No autocomplete, just a Google search.
Almost went to the General Motors website.
Truth, but it's three more key presses when I can just click the bookmark under the address bar instead of clicking the address bar. Takes you three times longer!
Unless you're like me with folders, sub folders, and sub sub folders of bookmarks. Sometimes it's easier to just search. It would be great if I can do a search within my bookmarks!
Firefox can search your bookmarks. I'd be surprised if another browser couldn't, but it probably isn't as easy as just using the address bar
I was only joking but you're right, this is already a thing, for Chrome too. TIL.
For any Chrome users here, type @bookmarks before your search in the address bar.
Idk dude, I feel like there is more wrist movement involved in mouse control than typing.
I fucking hate the death of keyboard shortcuts and not being able to reliably tab through fields. Particularly in UIs designed for data entry.
All our patient care reporting software has gone to a touch-screen centric UI ... when half the fields still require typing information in.
I still find myself tabbing while signing in but it almost never works.
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