> here's a hint: the domain that this link is on is the name of a company that revolutionized information retrieval on the internet about 20 years ago
You know what actually revolutionized information retrieval, more than 30 years ago? The World Wide Web, which shipped with these things called “hyperlinks” from the very beginning. You know, that thing that lets you click on them and open a document.
> so I suggest that what you're supposed to do with journal reference is put all these obvious factoids to good use and try to retrieve some information :)
Saying “here’s the page for this thing, but we’re just going to give you some search terms for it so that you can enter them into a proprietary search engine and hopefully maybe dig up the real thing” is only a revolution in how huge of a step backwards it is from what we had 30 years ago.
> my friend you're accessing this information (my comment and this link) on a device that is connected to the internet and you're upset that some resource doesn't spoon feed you (even though it does).
Y’know, you’re right, I’m such an idiot. Why does HN even have links? Surely we don’t need to be spoon fed, we’re all smart enough to Alphabet something so why not just have every discussion contain a search term only? No, it shouldn’t be clickable, we should all independently copy/paste the headline and see what we all come up with when searching for it. Links are such a huge step backwards from this revolutionary search idea.
Oh and why stop there? The search results themselves can just be more search terms to use! We won’t even need the web any more, we’ll just do search terms all the way down. So revolutionary.
You’re certainly swooping in to defend them as if you work for them so I’d just as soon assume you do.
If the QR codes just sent me to a page saying “lol just search the web for the menu, you shouldn’t need to be spoon fed” then I’d leave the diner, yes.
You know what actually revolutionized information retrieval, more than 30 years ago? The World Wide Web, which shipped with these things called “hyperlinks” from the very beginning. You know, that thing that lets you click on them and open a document.
> so I suggest that what you're supposed to do with journal reference is put all these obvious factoids to good use and try to retrieve some information :)
Saying “here’s the page for this thing, but we’re just going to give you some search terms for it so that you can enter them into a proprietary search engine and hopefully maybe dig up the real thing” is only a revolution in how huge of a step backwards it is from what we had 30 years ago.
> my friend you're accessing this information (my comment and this link) on a device that is connected to the internet and you're upset that some resource doesn't spoon feed you (even though it does).
Y’know, you’re right, I’m such an idiot. Why does HN even have links? Surely we don’t need to be spoon fed, we’re all smart enough to Alphabet something so why not just have every discussion contain a search term only? No, it shouldn’t be clickable, we should all independently copy/paste the headline and see what we all come up with when searching for it. Links are such a huge step backwards from this revolutionary search idea.
Oh and why stop there? The search results themselves can just be more search terms to use! We won’t even need the web any more, we’ll just do search terms all the way down. So revolutionary.