10-24-2024, 06:41 PM
(10-23-2024, 05:23 PM)Uncle wrote:(10-23-2024, 05:14 PM)Polident wrote: Google as a search engine just doesn’t work anymore.
No matter how many quotations marks and clarifications, you don’t get relevant results. Let alone useful information.
I think part of this is due to how good informative websites made by obsessed fans just for the joy of it have been dropping like flies and/or hidden due to bad SEO
some guy made "mike's page of north american songbirds" 20 years ago but he never put up ads so google had no reason to funnel people to his site, which wasn't heavily trafficked anyway, and now he's dead and his family have no interest and no idea in sustaining that little website full of great information
now you end up on some ad-infested hellhole that just copied all its info from wikipedia anyway
There's also been a bunch of legal bullshittery (eg the FairSearch cuntopoly) where various parasitic businesses whose entire business plan was 'be a middleman website and get a cut off of directing people to the websites actually providing the thing people are actually looking for' that have endlessly manipulated SEO, lobbied governments and complained they dont show up in searches as early as they think they should (ie before the sites their revenue stream consists of directing other people to for a cut).