• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    It used to be you use a search engine to find places that have more about the thing you searched for.

    Now it’s just, “The thing you searched for is this. You probably already knew that, but fuck you. Now that you’ve made it this far and gotten nothing, scroll down for some clickticles mentioning the thing. Keep going, keep going, keeeep going… There. This site may be a resource of stuff on that thing if you wanna try, but don’t be surprised if you click back after a moment because the algorithm is basically fucked for actual searching. Have you tried Page 5? Yeah, it’s full of unrelated shit. It looks like Pages 1 and 2 are all that the entire internet has on that thing, probably.”

    Let’s be honest, many thing broke the internet, but Google was a big contributor to its current state and my god does it suck now. Why do we even still call them “browsers”?

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      19 hours ago

      Have you tried Page 5? Yeah, it’s full of unrelated shit. It looks like Pages 1 and 2 are all that the entire internet has on that thing, probably.

      This is so real. You’re lucky if you even get anything useful on page 1, but anything beyond it is completely useless, unrelated stuff. And it isn’t just Google.