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Speaking of Wikipedia, nearly 100% of the time when I Google something medical related I want to get the Wikipedia page for it. Not WebMD or Mayo clinic or whatever. But Google never includes the Wikipedia link (at least on the first page of results), so I have to append “… wiki” to the search. I can only assume this is intentional.

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Maybe one more reason to switch to DuckDuckGo with bang operators:

!w <search> to search Wikipedia directly.

I mean “wiki <search>“ works on Google too. But I don’t want to type anything extra. My problem here is if we assume the search engine should be good at predicting what I actually want to see for a given term, Google is failing at that.

Sounds like you need a BCI like this: https://shop.openbci.com/collections/frontpage

(semi-joking... but complaining about typing 3-5 letters is definitely a 1st world problem ;)

It absolutely is :) But so is complaining about Pinterest ruining photo search!

Fair enough! Then again the top-voted comment IMO invalidates the entire article's premise i.e. Bing image search works fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29151512

That is to say that Google image search is the real problem and not Pinterest.

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