Sure, Google it. The algorithm has no biases, right? Search engines are optimized to serve you with no ulterior motives, right?
As the techbros continue to seize what's left of the online commons, as the "Metaverse" looms like a great marketing tumor on the horizon, I see less appeal in "Googling it" than ever before.
Yeah I use DuckDuckGo for what it's worth, but how long until that's like shopping at Whole Foods to feel like an environmental activist?
Sometimes it's nice to ask a question among strangers and get a stranger's answer. It feels better than obeying the universal answer and feeding the Lovecraftian data collection machine one extra time as one more data point.
Also, over time a larger and larger proportion of answers you find by googling become "sigh, google it"
This feels like the expanded version of searching a forum about a topic and the first five threads it gives you are other people starting threads about the topic and being told to search for old threads instead.
the answer can be found here: [dead link from 8 years ago]
thanks it worked!
programmers literally do not know how teaching works. They just assumed everyone already knows everything and when someone doesn't they get extremely pissed very quickly for no discernable reason???
"i am very smart, and the existence of those dumb questions (that i definitely didn't have at one time) proves it"
I understand your criticisms, but I was able to disprove them in five minutes on Google
I've had similar problems "googling it" before. The worst experiences were when I looked up specific obscure words.
Every.
Fucking.
Word.
Had.
A.
Startup.
:agony-4horsemen:
Butt: a pee company
Now doctors can't google butt if they need to know what that is. Just so google can make a little more money off ads.
Now doctors can’t google butt if they need to know what that is
A real problem in our community 😔
I have this problem every time I need to remember the difference between "converse" and "inverse", because it always gives me results about the Converse brand of shoes.
Yeah, I ask easily googleable stuff all the time, like I'm looking for ur take or ur interpretation, not just a raw context free result
It only allows silly arguments based on provided links to crackpots and right wing demagogues!
"Tiananmen square huirhawuueiwhgawlw"
"Okay, please link me to a source."
"Google it commie."
"I did, I couldn't find anything conclusive. Could I have your source so I can read it?"
"Google it better"
I hate :reddit-logo: but if I'm trying to find certain kinds of information or fix a problem I add 'site:reddit.com' to the search just so I can guarantee I'm getting an answer from an actual human and not an algorithmically generated SEO listicle
this is the only way to find useful information for plenty of topics
I wouldn't be shocked if soon Google will enable/default to only searching in the walled garden of preferred websites, and it will be greeted with cheers, despite that meaning google can get into threatening to delist sites they don't like.
I mean if you wanna know what the melting point of something g is google will help
There's yandex, baidu, wolframalpha too for a few others. If Google treats me like a piece of shit I pop my question into one of those 3, see how it likes that, I was told DuckDuckGo just uses Yahoo. We should make a searchengine alternative repository.
When I lived in the city I remember not being able to access some sites because my IP, which had a monopoly in the area, just would blanket block access to stuff, and this was more than thepiratebay and torrentfreak. I only found out since they blocked Mexico's department of Agriculture, which I needed access to for an assignment. Then ofc I was an org pretty much every link was blocked, including marxists org and other common similar sites.
