Google Mobile Search Shows Recipe Suggestions When You Look For Food (engadget.com) 26
In the past few years, Google has used its so-called "knowledge graph" to make search results far more useful than just a list of links -- you can get lots of info on a variety of topics right in Google without having to click on any search results. The latest addition to Google search is something foodies should take note of. Now, when you search for food on mobile, you'll see a carousel of recipes at the top of the results page. From a report on Engadget: Google also added some filters to those recipe results -- right below the search bar are additional suggestions you can use to refine your results. Searching for "fried chicken" gave me the option to add "oven-fried," "buttermilk," and "southern fried" filters to narrow down the recipes. You can also tap "view all" to move out of the standard search page and see bigger, more detailed recipe cards that show a picture and quick preview of the recipe.
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*you're basements
Re: The dorks here don't care (Score:2)
You seriously posted a correction and got it wrong?
Or were you just trolling?
GP may be a troll but his spelling, punctuation and grammar were pretty good. Props for getting both a possessive pronoun and a plural possessive correct. Please don't break what doesn't need fixing.
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I hadn't expected the bait to be that alluring.
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Last I poked my head out of the basement, I noticed that, among other things, in the "real world" you have a refugee crisis going on, global warming, near global economic collapse, Donald Trump is President AND they removed the headphone jack from the iPhone.
Who'd want to live in a world like that?
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Star Dreck. Certainly apt for the crossover with Quantum Leap. An entire series of that crap?
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The fishing here is surprisingly easy. Almost takes the fun out of it.
The trading recipes is seriously underrated (Score:4, Informative)
Or at the least once was.
Back when Fidonet was as close to the Internet as one could get (affordably). It was evident that one of the most popular subject within the Usenet were the trading of recipes. Something I never expected, the popularity and the amounts (recipes) available in that area were just vast.
I never followed the subject further than that spending my time in other areas; but still curious that while Usenet sex/files/hacks/banter went hand in hand, never once heard of areas trading recipes other than being just another newsgroup. It was something one (I) stumbled across, as if many participated yet dare not talked about it.
Re:The trading recipes is seriously underrated (Score:4, Insightful)
It was evident that one of the most popular subject within the Usenet were the trading of recipes. Something I never expected, the popularity and the amounts (recipes) available in that area were just vast.
It's not so surprising if you think of it as a kind of porn.
Surveys show that almost 1/3 of Americans don't know how to cook. And this more shocking given that the bar for what constitutes "cooking" has been dropping. When I learned to cook one of the first things I learned was to bone a chicken -- something admittedly I haven't done in twenty years. My grandparents generation would have learned how pluck a chicken. Today buying a seasoned chicken breast and throwing it in the oven is "cooking".
I go to the supermarket and produce and meat sections have shrunk to make room for burgeoning frozen and microwave convenience foods. We are a country where you can literally buy frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwiches [smuckers.com].
And yet at the same time cable TV is choked with cooking "reality" shows and how-to shows where food which is prepared that it is a fair bet that not one in a hundred viewers would attempt. I'd lay even odds that not one in thousand on some of the recipes. And the number of cookbooks that are published have gone up by 50% since 2002.
The inevitable conclusion is that there is a growing body of people who read about cooking, watch shows about cooking, but do not cook themselves.
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Oh, I agree. Cooking can be complicated, but only if you want it to be. Julia Child's recipes are amazing, but insanely complicated. Mark Bittman's recipes on the other hand are simple, fun and reliable -- I just bought his beginner cookbook [amazon.com] for my college student daughter and she is thrilled to be making delicious food from scratch instead of instant ramen.
I grew up in a restaurant family and I love to go out to eat, but I can't wrap my brain around people ordering something like hamburgers. Stuff that's
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"On mobile"? (Score:2)
I hope not literally mobile.
The last thing we need when driving is to have Google pop up a bunch of recipes. Restaurants, yes, cooking info, not very likely.
Save the recipe suggestions for when the mobile isn't mobile. In fact, pretty much anywhere that isn't home. Unless explicitly asked for, anyway.
Fascinating story (Score:2)
The future is NOW.
These guys (Score:2)
There's not much gets past these guys, is there?
But I don't eat metal (Score:2)