Anyone else feel like there's some kind of gaslight campaign behind how awful contemporary internet search is? You complain about it and it's just faceless chump after faceless chump telling you that {search_engine} is better than it's ever been you're just doing it wrong. Or accusations of misremembering the past and associated "nostalgia-goggle" insults?
6 days ago 路 馃憤 cobradile94, genxalt
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Plausible. But you talk where? You have to be fanatically accurate in this kind of analysis. Take YouTube: I don't know about bot doing something like you suppose, but about one week ago I replied to a comment asking for a song on Spotify ,and it was instantly incinerated, and I hadn't post any url, only hint & keywords. On a very niche question w. lot of likes. How many users had their comment gone? That made me almost sure there are bots and routines actively purging reference to competitors in any form to keep the market dominance, and if governments worth a tenth of what they used to Antitrust authorities would take these giants and shatter them into pieces. 路 5 days ago
I'm going to agree with these other two, I never hear anyone say anything positive about modern search engines. 路 5 days ago
Honestly, I can't remember the last time I heard someone say anything positive about internet searching. As far as anyone I've talked to is concerned, it's just gotten universally worse. 路 6 days ago
not here. only agreement when I mentioned this to friends 路 6 days ago
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