• blobjim [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Not really Google's fault considering they're up against a gazillion people doing search engine "optimization" for a gazillion individual websites. It's basically an arms race. And of course if they change their search engine in some small way, it will literally put companies out of business that got traffic through Google search results. It does suck how much we now rely on this black box search engine database thingy to find things instead of coming up with other interesting ways of organizing information.

    People also might be expecting too much, for Google to find them obscure answers to whatever questions they type in, that have very few answers anywhere on the internet, which is probably not something a search engine is going to be able to do. The number of websites out there has also probably made it ever more expensive to do search indexing.

    • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      People also might be expecting too much, for Google to find them obscure answers to whatever questions they type in, that have very few answers anywhere on the internet, which is probably not something a search engine is going to be able to do.

      it used to do that just fine, shit used to read my mind and find stuff I'd seen months/years prior with very vague search terms

    • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      capitalism under silicon valley is an arms race to exploit the dumbest loopholes in the rules because most of what's valuable is still wrung from the bloodied hands of a Congolese Cobalt miner.