<story><title>This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan</title><url>http://pri.org/stories/2013-11-16/google-ad-has-moved-people-tears-across-indian-and-pakistan?re</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>staunch</author><text>Yes, Google is basically just a better X searching tool than X provides, where X is most every web site on earth.</text></item><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>This is the ad: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE&lt;/a&gt; - be sure to have subtitles on (unless you understand Hindi).&lt;p&gt;One interesting observation about the ad: the search results that the girl deems to be good and informative are almost all Wikipedia hits. It&amp;#x27;s actually pretty similar to my situation: Google is basically a better Wikipedia searching tool than what Wikipedia provides.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>selmnoo</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t want to go to far on an off-topic tangent, but basically what I was getting at was that I increasingly seem to be interested in a very limited number of sites -- that is, mostly, sites that I already know of and recognize.&lt;p&gt;I use Reddit search more when I&amp;#x27;m doing exploratory searching hoping to land on a site I&amp;#x27;ve never been before, because it serves me already vetted&amp;#x2F;reviewed sites. In this way, Google is no longer a tool for me to do &lt;i&gt;search&lt;/i&gt;, where I&amp;#x27;m not sure where I&amp;#x27;ll end up, it&amp;#x27;s now a tool to get me where I know I want to go (which happens to be some wikipedia page most of the times).</text></comment>
<story><title>This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan</title><url>http://pri.org/stories/2013-11-16/google-ad-has-moved-people-tears-across-indian-and-pakistan?re</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>staunch</author><text>Yes, Google is basically just a better X searching tool than X provides, where X is most every web site on earth.</text></item><item><author>selmnoo</author><text>This is the ad: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE&lt;/a&gt; - be sure to have subtitles on (unless you understand Hindi).&lt;p&gt;One interesting observation about the ad: the search results that the girl deems to be good and informative are almost all Wikipedia hits. It&amp;#x27;s actually pretty similar to my situation: Google is basically a better Wikipedia searching tool than what Wikipedia provides.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Dylan16807</author><text>Not at all.  If you&amp;#x27;re filtering based on multiple categories, a search that understands them, even barebones, is better than a brilliant generic-text-search.</text></comment>