Interesting, I remember a lot of people switching from Google and even seeing billboard ads for DDG. Even Ecosia, the site I use myself, is just returning Bing results (which are somewhat less ideologically curated compared to Google results). I don't like Bing either (Microsoft are a criminal enterprise). Has anyone used another search engine to recommend for privacy and good social values?
i think this is low key wrecking minds. our brains are being SEO'd. it becomes harder to refer to a thing itself, and instead, it's now whatever is boosted by the algo
also, shit, i made a bad choice many years ago. i stopped focusing on memorizing things because i could always just google it
Idk if this is just me, but I feel like there was also a transitional period post-2012 where I'd put "quotation marks" around every word to make sure it didn't ignore it. But even that doesn't fucking work anymore.
Yeah a couple of years ago Google stopped recognizing search operators like quotation marks,
AND,NOT, etc.EDIT: I may be wrong about this, haven't used Google in a while
Wait really? No wonder its got really shit for me too. feels bad man, just want classic google back.
So I just checked and apparently the
-and quotation mark operators are still supposed to work. I wouldn't be surprised if Google does its natural language fuckery anyway though.I think this is a documented shift in the psychology of a lot of young people who grew up with the internet. People use their brainpower to remember where and how to find things rather than remembering things directly. It's not necessarily a bad thing, since it's more efficient overall I think.
Of course, it is kind of a bad thing when a lot of human knowledge starts to depend on the existence of a dozen major websites
unless it's on your hard drive, and backed up, it doesn't exist