At my work, I have an employee that struggles with several aspects of the office work parts of the job. She’s got almost no basic computer literacy, and only recently was able to create new folders consistently. She also can’t really use Excel at all.
She wants to learn, and I spent my whole youth on computers, but I can’t spare the hours to teach her everything from the ground up at work. I’ve done a little YouTube searching to check for basic computing tutorials, but I haven’t found anything at a basic enough level yet to be useful to her. I’m sure they exist, but are just eluding me. I think for her, something she can watch and maybe follow along with might be the best option.
Search engines really have become terrible. Plus so much of the internet is absolute trash now. I built a career from nothing but desire, Google, and Stack Overflow. Idk if someone could still do the same. A lot of the resources that I used for free are subscriptions now, and Google refuses to show relevant results for any searches not related to products. If Google’s search results pages are to be believed, then there are only 3-4 pages related to any given search, out of billions of websites across the globe. We have more information available on the internet than at any previous point in human history, yet much of it is completely inaccessible because search engines refuse to produce accurate results now. What is incredibly frustrating is that they were already an unimaginably wealthy company when they were still producing amazing results. But I guess more wealth than a company could spend in a thousand years isn’t enough? It wasn’t enough to have that kind of power? No. They went and completely enshitified their services, despite incredible success with their previous approach. What a fucking shame.
I saw a comment about kagi.com two days ago in a thread complaining about duckduckgo and decided to try it out. The search results are spot on every time so far, so I might keep using it and get a paid account.
Yes Kagi is definitely the best search engine today. I’ve been using the $10 tier engine for a few months now. It has definitely been a good decision.