Internet search hacks
Added 2025-03-22 17:58:24 +0000 UTCComments
This is a board game but I highly recommend checking out Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective. Shut Up and Sit Down did a review of it a while ago in case you're interested.
75 Million Inferior Goods
2025-05-16 09:08:56 +0000 UTCAh thanks! I never check that email because it is so full of "partnership opportunity" or "brand deal" spam it is useless haha
Hendry
2025-03-30 00:04:57 +0000 UTCI sent an email about some other useful search things to the mail address at youtube that are too long for the comment box, just wanted to call it out ICYMI!
Tamás Deme
2025-03-29 05:17:36 +0000 UTCOh this looks great! I'll add it to the queue!
Hendry
2025-03-25 04:36:13 +0000 UTCWatches video... rechecks description... Is that not normal talking speed? Oh wait, now I know why everybody tells me to slow down. :-D Also... I miss what reddit used to be. :-/
Chris Hershey
2025-03-24 00:58:05 +0000 UTCSo many creators I'm following have been talking about "Information Games" (Tom Francis's term) recently, I'm glad this genre is getting popular! I have a good recommendation for another game, Type Help by William Rous.
Shemetz
2025-03-23 21:09:33 +0000 UTCI think this worked too because the energy matched the tempo. If it were a focused wall of text on a single thesis it might've been harder to follow, but could've felt disjointed if delivered more slowly. Like 5 minutes of info organically concentrated into half the time purely for love of the game. Also that link is insane, thank you. It's basically the opening YT fix, but for Google! So pleasant to look at.
Josh Brooks
2025-03-22 23:38:28 +0000 UTCI liked the speed! But that might just be because I habitually watch videos at faster speeds. anyways, https://tenbluelinks.org/ is nice for removing the new annoying ai overviews from google
Isaac
2025-03-22 22:53:10 +0000 UTCSoon we're all just going to miss the old internet, and it won't even be nostalgia... there was something really incredible about it!
Hendry
2025-03-22 19:51:57 +0000 UTCthe ez YouTube search fix was my first thought on seeing the title. This sort of thing feels increasingly relevant and increasingly forgotten! A couple years back I remember looking for some document on a suboptimally-maintained local animal rescue site, seeing mention of it but no PDF link, bouncing around for like 30min. Eventually mentioned it in Discord to an elder millenial friend on the other side of the continent, who found it in two minutes with 'filetype:pdf' in Google. I felt like I'd just asked my granddaughter to restart the wifi again dude. Potential bleak future for the iPad kids. Also the general rise of having to mash two or more platforms/products/services together to achieve what was once possible with one is interesting. I always think of Google/Apple Maps. Google Maps feels more like an outlet for their routing algo, vast repository of map/location data, and user-generated content than being a good actual *map* of your surrounding location. Apple's UX is tailored to that a little better imo, especially if you live near a city and that city is in the US. The only drawback is the locations and reviews are filtered through Yelp. idk just miss old Google Maps sometimes, like we all probably tend to miss old Google lots of stuff.. excited to hear you and your audience talk games some more!
Josh Brooks
2025-03-22 19:40:42 +0000 UTCInteresting, I hadn't thought of title search but that's a good point. Internet search was so nice while it worked, I never fully appreciated it...
Hendry
2025-03-22 18:56:10 +0000 UTCTechnically, site:reddit.com forces results to be from reddit.com, whereas inurl:reddit.com could still return results like hgmodernism.pizza/reddit.com_is_cool/. This is handy for filtering out sub-sections of sites you don't want results from, e.g. "site:example.com -inurl:shopping -inurl:blog -inurl:review". Another feature I regularly find useful is intitle: which only returns results with specific words in the page title, e.g. "site:reddit.com intitle:wombats -inurl:thewombats".
Dan Engler
2025-03-22 18:51:48 +0000 UTCPleb... real connoisseurs of my content watch it at 100x until either they transcend their meat brains or their loved ones beg them to come to dinner and take their seizure meds
Hendry
2025-03-22 18:27:24 +0000 UTCSo........ not to get into my opinions yet.... got to save that for the video.... but the DLCs are done by different teams and I was frankly kind of disappointed by two of the DLC of the first game. They were designed such that you *had* to use the grammar of the fill-in-the-blanks to solve the puzzle, and I don't like that design because I actually like to pretend the fill-in-the-blanks was a hint system and try to solve it without even opening that tab. I'll still play Sins of New Wells, but I'm really hoping that isn't the case again
Hendry
2025-03-22 18:20:39 +0000 UTCAh I like that game! You might like Silicon Dreams, which is kind of like the Voight Kampff test from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep/Blade Runner.
Hendry
2025-03-22 18:17:22 +0000 UTCDid you play the new DLC (Sins of New Wells) for Rise of the Golden Idol yet? It's peak
Shoedonym
2025-03-22 18:14:49 +0000 UTCThank you, I will be watching at 2x speed but watch it 4 times.
Nina
2025-03-22 18:14:01 +0000 UTCI'm excited for your take on the genre, detective procedurals are some of my favorites but I haven't played a lot of games that give me the same satisfaction. It might be an outlier, but Subsurface Circular is a fun one based purely on interviewing persons of interest
Yan Knoop
2025-03-22 18:11:28 +0000 UTC
