Obviously google was basically already unusable over the past five years but this is... this is something else. Any subject you want to look up will have the first three pages entirely comprised of procedurally generated fake blogs and websites. And there's nothing there. Just scraped text from articles mashed together with varying amounts of hallucinations on top. Not even selling a product, just to harvest ad revenue.
What's maybe even worse is the steady degradation of image searches too. Joe Everyman generates some slop, the image's metadata tags include a historical artist's name. Some one on pinterest pins it while trawling the web. Now there are fifty gooey generated sludge images when you look up the historical painter.
And its not just artists. Historical figures, animals too. Look up 'baby peacock' if you want a clear example of it.
It's a pretty funny bit google, I hope it keeps going.
Why would you want to look at articles about Ukraine from before 2022? It's obviously all Russian propaganda (even things from the NYT and other liberal papers)
I was looking for a transcript from the Senate of Ron Paul criticizing regime change attempts in Ukraine in like 2002
Well he was really criticizing spending the money to do it, but still
Same,I recently watched a Guardian documentary from a few years ago about neo Nazi summer camps in Ukraine, like wtf, how could Russia do this
They've been really insidious with their secret edits to old articles and even videos, you have to be careful out there
Heh, good thing Internet Archive is safe from outside meddling forever