Just googled "7 things i teach students", seeking article "Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher". No leads. Then I recalled where I saved it in @RoamResearch Unnerving that google has no place to report "here's what I was looking for with this query". No learning.
Search engines with no way to give feedback
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The lack of feedback from users is a helpful but incomplete explanation for this 👇 (deeper issue is the things it *is* using as feedback, and gameability of those)
Of course, you can't simply allow me to declare anyone searching for "7 things i teach students" should get this article. That would be a race to the bottom faster than you could say . But I should be able to say "hey google, *I* care about this article and may look in future"
And moreover, when something like this 👇 happens, there's no way to tell the app that it is completely misunderstanding my query.
Guess I gotta vote with my feet. Got other engines? I've sampled DDG in Brave's incognito mode and its results are some okay, sometimes complete randomness.
Also while the exact title "The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher" should be enough to find you this article even with a garbage search engine, here's the link anyway. It's good shit. swaraj.org/multiversity/g…