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[โ€“] [email protected] 107 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

In the late 90s and very early 00's you could ~~google~~ yahoo song names and get a downloadable mp3 link as one of the first results.
Cause search engines simply showed websites that contained your search terms, without filtering and AI algorithms.

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

Yep, too much of search engines today is people pushing SEO crap to rise in rankings and the businesses "protecting" users by delisting tons of sites that Google/Yahoo or who-the-fuck-ever has decided are "bad." The number of times legitimate sites get swept up in that bullshit is too damn high.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Having no filtering certainly had its pros and cons, considering how much traumatizing shit google would throw at me as a child lol

[โ€“] apostrofail 3 points 3 months ago

early โ€™00s*