It is astonishing and upsetting how, not long ago, we had massive reservoirs of all the world's information in our pockets, and now, shitty rich people have poisoned those reservoirs. And now it's just a fucking mess.
This insanity just makes Jimmy Wales look better and better.
Try googling “airport XXX rental car return address”. Google will supply 3 pages of ads for rental cars. Dude, context. “return” means I already have one. They’re more interested in a potential tiny monetization than providing a useful service.
If only there were more civilized and legal examples of what to do about shitty Rich people than the French Revolution. If they didn’t have choke holds & blackmail on politicians (or the latter weren’t also SRP themselves), we might see change
We just need to change our terminology: duck duck go it
We just burned down the library of Alexandria. Again.
I use Chat-Gpt4 now
Yeah, it's why I shifted to DuckDuckGo recently-ish; it doesn't have the oomph of Gargle in its heyday, but it's light-years better than the *current* abomination. (As I think of it, there are really two choices of search engines: DuckDuckGo and FuckFuckNo.)
It is weird to be nostalgic for Altavista.
People are complaining that Google isn't as useful as it used to be but what about the other search engines?