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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

BlueSky Post.

Transcript.If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.

old guy takes long hit on the bong

“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They absolutely did break it. Without even getting into all of the convoluted shenanigans they pull now, their advanced search operators are dog shit now. They completely ignore negative search terms whenever they have a bunch of ads to show you with that term, or when there's an abundance of agenda-rich propaganda articles with that term. They're fucking poopoopcacca now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It also sucks that all information is now hidden away in a youtube tutorial or on a reddit thread full of dead links and deleted comments. I don't want to watch your shit YouTube video, I never did.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Right? I never understood why people would rather watch some over sensationalized YouTube video that is full of fluff, rather than just quickly reading an article. I can get information I need from an article before a YouTuber even finishes their stupid intro. I guess the average person is pretty bad at reading.