I don’t know if I’m paranoid, but it is so much harder for me to find links for things I’ve seen to share with people.
Googling “Zelensky blonde hair blue eyes bbc” did not bring up anything referencing his sick comments. Only when I added “Twitter” did I find tweets that had clipped it.
I’m not able to find anything about Yemen being attacked recently and the most recent news says that Yemen launched a rocket.
Am I conspiracy-brained, are there just not any sources reporting on anything inconvenient to Western hegemony, or are they being buried by the algorithm?
Even that’s going downhill, I’m starting to notice discussion of shit on Reddit having a ton bots/paid accounts where their posts were random meme stuff until the week of their post and then they’re all about some particular product or service lol. Can’t trust anything
For the things I google it works quite well. "Basically any google search term + reddit" is so much more reliable that my boomer ass parents have started to do it.
The other forums who are still active are completely unusable because the only people who've stuck around are the most insane boomers lol
site:reddit.comwill explicitly restrict search results to that domain so you aren't getting weird blogspam on page 3.It’s usually what i do too and it’s still more reliable than others but I’ve googled things recently that were inundated by accounts clearly purschased by companies to shill their products. I can only assume it’ll get worse lol
a while ago google changed their algo to highly prioritize MSM, which are of course controlled by the CIA
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39707642Countries and powerful companies conspiring to manipulate public opinion?
Perish the thought.
I noticed this on youtube when looking for funny clips of our big cheeto or of biden, any controversial things would just turn up long clips of msm talking about it, the clip itself was almost always impossible to find.
any controversial things would just turn up long clips of msm talking about it, the clip itself was almost always impossible to find.
Which is hilarious, since that's the entire reason that YouTube was created in the first place: they couldn't find any videos of Janet Jackson's tit at the Super Bowl, just videos of the media talking about it. So they made their own site.
You used to be able to go to Bing for that, but it's about as watered down as Google now :sadness:
Yes. It has been getting harder to google things, but I do not think it is intentional. Like the other day I spend a lot of time trying to find a simple image with a transparent background that isn't on Pinterest or some platform that tries to get you to subscribe. Basically a lot of the internet has been taken over by platforms that dedicate a considerable amount of time to some form of SEO, that makes looking up meaningful results more difficult.
That and Google's changes to the way it's rankings work and how it prioritises content has slanted it heavily towards news media instead of discussion or first sources.
Definitely.
I think it's for a few reasons:
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The rise of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) making it easy for organizations with the resources to do so to increase there position in the search
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There's just way more stuff out there to have to sift through
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Shock Doctrine after trump popularized the idea of Fake News so now all the searches prioritize MSM results
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Nah, happened to me too, but not necessarily while googling stuff sensitive to westerners
On youtube, I can search for a specific video by looking up the title word for word , complete with channel name, and not get anything but sorta-popular vids unrelated to what I searched, while on google searching some things only gives me mainstream sources only tangentially related to what I was looking for.
Googling “Zelensky blonde hair blue eyes bbc” did not bring up anything referencing his sick comments. Only when I added “Twitter” did I find tweets that had clipped it.
I think that's because it was someone else
Oops I’m an idiot, the blotter saying “Zelensky:” underneath him made me think it was him.
You win this one, Google. But I still feel like in the past I would have gotten something related to what I was searching for.
I don't think Google needs a conspiracy to bury counter-narratives to the official propaganda. Google ranks the results after engagement so if a billion libs retweets Ghost of Kiev bullshit that gets to drown out those having less NATO -friendly takes.
Column A and column B (I think they had to tweak the alg cause of the "fake news" stuff, and plenty of independent sources get caught in that net)
It's not just you
Search engine optimization and countless ads make it an absolute disaster to navigate
Google’s algorithm has been tweaked very hard to focus on local and personalized results, to the extent that its basically turned into reddit search + yellow pages for me.
Ironically, Yandex has become the search engine i use if i need information about something, or if i need to pirate movies/books, or if i want porn, or if i want to look at isis beheading videos or whatever. Basically i use it unless im trying to figure out when a restaurant is open.
or if i want porn, or if i want to look at isis beheading videos or whatever
this is a hell of a statement
Feelin' cute and frisky today. Might watch some porn or a beheading video later, idk.
It's been getting harder and harder to google even mundane stuff for the last 12 years or so, yeah
This doesn't apply to your search, but:
If you're trying to answer a complex question, or a question about a very commercialized thing, try adding "site:reddit.com" to the search.
However bad reddit is, it can beat the fuck out of spammy fucking copy pasted blogs
Or "site:bbc.com" or similar. Typing in a lot of search terms often just gives you the people with the biggest SEO budget. In the case of specifically "blonde hair blue eyes bbc" the top result is pornhub lol.
The algorithm is fucked by search engine optimization, the search engine is good for bots but terrible for actual human use.
Google currently being sued in Europe for dumping all it's shit-tier ads and possibly even poorer search results on its smaller partners like Duck Duck Go.
Sorry, I should have said more ads of poorer quality, which results in even less quality search results.
I'm full of flu and being mucked about by passive aggressive emails from a client so dashed off that response to quick. I should have been clearer.
This source looks a little too accurate - better save that one for later.
