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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

BlueSky Post.

Transcript.If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.

old guy takes long hit on the bong

“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”

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[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

No, they most certainly broke it. Instead of just searching for what you type in, it now "interprets" your query and the interpretation is always whatever has more ads. If you switch to Verbatim mode, the results are noticeably better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can switch to verbatim mode?

[–] OldGreyTroll 4 points 10 months ago

Tools -> dropdown "All results" and select "Verbatim"

[–] shalafi 1 points 10 months ago

That looks good! Thanks!