"Kids Can't Use Computers" is now ten years old, and it's only gotten worse

www.coding2learn.org Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you — Coding 2 Learn

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www.coding2learn.org /blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/

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I am 28 and i have always thought that the as long as you know how to operate a search engine you can find out what you need. The reason computer people know computers better than you do is because computer people can use a search engine better than you
- Good thing search engines are optimized for advertising instead of utility!
  
  I use searx and DNS level adblocking. Online ads are almost a completely foreign concept for me as 99.9% of the time they just never even load.
  
  I remember when Google used to be perfectly functional as long as you knew the right search tools. Now it thinks it knows what I'm searching for better than I do, and that almost always means pointing me towards something someone paid for lol
  
  Crazy to think about, but other than through searx i have not used google in about 4 years now. Like i have not loaded google.com in that amount of time
  
  Is advanced searching any better? I wouldn't know now because searx but when I used it before it helped to keep the results focused.
  
  It's better, but sometimes google will decide you didn't really mean to type the string inside the quotation marks. Advanced search tools used to be rock solid!
  
  God help you if whatever you're searching for has key words in any way related to a big news story. Even trying to restrict the date doesn't seem to help.
  
  Can you recommend me a searx instance that doesn't break every week?
  
  I use xo.wtf most times. If it breaks i try searx.be and if neither one works then i will use duckduckgo
- I learned how to use computer since i was 5 years old, mostly through video games, then by playing with the Microsoft office, i'm 25 now going computer engineering, and i'm teaching my dad how to use a computer lol
- Exactly this. I am 27 and if there's anything I've learned about the importance of different skills in tech, is that the most important one is finding the information you need. Everything else, you can look up as you need it

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