Post AQXqCXlpRbLWh2mFbE by alandersen@mastodon.world
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(DIR) Post #AQTNzV16nPW32X4meW by lori@hackers.town
2022-12-08T22:04:42Z
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Honestly the state of the internet is miserable if you're trying to learn things.Like, you want to learn how to care for an animal? Well, every Google result is a bot generated fake blog. Maybe try YouTube? Well, you have a few new options: there's the person who just got this animal for the first time talking like experts about them. Or there's the literal child telling you what they learned about caring for hamsters from the bot generated fake blogs they just looked up.This goes for almost anything anymore. There's no expertise, the only advice is just from whoever is the best at SEO, which is often not an actual person. But if it is they probably know as much as you do.In the last 6 or 7 years I've found myself more and more just digging up ebooks from people who know what the fuck they're talking about.
(DIR) Post #AQTNzVwXLtS9udweAK by lori@hackers.town
2022-12-08T22:05:52Z
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And the most infuriating thing is, if you're older and have been online a long time, you know that the information is out there. There's ten billion websites out there on how to raise goats by people who have done so professionally for decades.You just aren't allowed to find them anymore.
(DIR) Post #AQU7kTH3aaDnBNJ9RQ by aeonofdiscord@icosahedron.website
2022-12-08T22:07:16Z
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@lori at some point google realised that, since they didn't have competition, keeping their shit working was an unnecessary expense that got in the way of selling more ads
(DIR) Post #AQU7kTp5Y3RYsvEKUC by acdha@code4lib.social
2022-12-10T19:07:14Z
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@lori @aeonofdiscord yes - they have some hard problems with ML-generated text becoming more realistic but they have spent a decade slacking on the basics. They could trivially block domains which just scrape other people’s content, except that’d cost them money because the spam pages are loaded with more ads than the legitimate ones. It’s the kind of strategy which words until suddenly you’re Yahoo wondering why everyone left.
(DIR) Post #AQV50F1gE1FKvDu5Qm by Polychrome@poly.cybre.city
2022-12-11T14:49:29.912388Z
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@lori this might be why people are starting to rely on TikTok videos instead. 👀
(DIR) Post #AQVcOh3wvz55JUETui by mathlover@qoto.org
2022-12-11T21:03:41Z
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@lori So several people have mentioned duck duck go...I should also mention marginalia.nu
(DIR) Post #AQVcaB2pnnFNUDBe1g by raynerlucas@mastodon.social
2022-12-10T19:59:41Z
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@lori And Google seems to prioritise recent content, so those ridiculously comprehensive websites people made last century that were the authoritative resource on the Footech Super Frobnicator 3000 or whatever are now completely unfindable unless you happen to remember that really useful page you used to visit in 1998.
(DIR) Post #AQVcaBknAMPPgXkkXg by gospelhouseshovedupyour@hachyderm.io
2022-12-11T04:43:47Z
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@raynerlucas @lori that, or you can also look through the https://wiby.me search engine for older webpages.
(DIR) Post #AQVcaCFHL0nND6163s by mathlover@qoto.org
2022-12-11T21:05:44Z
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@gospelhouseshovedupyour @raynerlucas @lori Thanks for this!!!
(DIR) Post #AQVxSeDRYi2QgCOrWi by hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
2022-12-12T00:30:54Z
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@aeonofdiscord @lori What do you mean, their shit is working exactly as expected. For advertisers.
(DIR) Post #AQXqCXMIyUvhPsproe by AriaGrace@tech.lgbt
2022-12-10T22:46:22Z
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@lori "Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one." - Neil GaimanI feel this quote in my soul more and more every single day.#NeilGaiman
(DIR) Post #AQXqCXlpRbLWh2mFbE by alandersen@mastodon.world
2022-12-12T22:47:46Z
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@AriaGrace @lori Movie recommendation: Desk Set starring Hepburn and Tracy. It's all about librarians vs algorithms.