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INeedANewUserName@piefed.social 1 day agoIs it the conversational style? or that search engines have been designed to be actively worse to keep your eyeballs spending more time looking at advertisements now?
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I used to be good at googling information I needed. Then Google changed what googling does.
CandleTiger@programming.dev 1 day ago
Try to find a big rig truck wash near your location on Google maps. I cannot. Only 57 million car washes and no way to filter them out.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s because pickups and bigrigs are the same things now.
Soggy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When I was in grade school we had multiple lessons on using Boolean search terms to find useful information. Google-fu used to mean something.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
When I was in grade school we loaded up Logo and wrote scripts to make the turtle do abstract art.
is old
>_>
Routhinator@startrek.website 1 day ago
Don’t use Google. DDG works with keyword searches and you get exactly what you expect.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I do use DDG as my default. I was using “googling” for the sake of making a witty remark. Even so, the results are usually comparable - the first couple dozen results are mostly AI/SEO slop.
Routhinator@startrek.website 1 day ago
Oh, go to your DDG options and turn the AI slop off.