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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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[–] Vormadikter 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

What are "SEO spam tactics"? I would google, but am afraid of that now.

[–] DrQuint 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Whenever you try to get an answer to something like "What movie was the Be Like Water line from" and you can NOT find anything other than a bunch of articles with tons of paragraphs wasting your time - that's the SEO spam tactics. Those articles chose words that made themselves easier to be indexed by Google, but don't actually want to answer that question.

And yes. I literally looked this up this week.

I still don't fucking know if it came from Enter the Dragon or some other short series. I just gave up. Google has enshitified news articles on the internet and has to seriously consider retraining their algorithm to negatively impact shit like that.

[–] Num10ck 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Be like water" is from a Bruce Lee interview https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cJMwBwFj5nQ not a movie.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=cJMwBwFj5nQ

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] TheHighRoad 13 points 2 years ago

Basically all the crap on a recipe page before the actual recipe... Except there is no recipe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think I just figured it out, Search Engine Optimization?

[–] TheBat 2 points 2 years ago

Yes. Google popularized it and now it has ruined Google search.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

One where they optimise their article and site according to how google algorithm works, and then multiply by 10. Or they funnel your search term to their own search function.