Way back when, if Google couldn’t find it and we did some good Google Fu, it probably wasn’t readily available online.
Now, you know it probably is there, just buried in nonsense generated purely by layer after layer of people’s selfishness. And they never even knew it could be any other way.
It’s a sick joke that we’ve celebrated being in the “information age” for the last 20-25 years, and now that information is being obfuscated by various means again.
You could say the same thing about information, though. Information doesn’t necessarily imply usefulness. There is an infinitude of information in the universe which is useless to us.
I feel so bad for the younger folks these days.
Way back when, if Google couldn’t find it and we did some good Google Fu, it probably wasn’t readily available online.
Now, you know it probably is there, just buried in nonsense generated purely by layer after layer of people’s selfishness. And they never even knew it could be any other way.
It’s a sick joke that we’ve celebrated being in the “information age” for the last 20-25 years, and now that information is being obfuscated by various means again.
SEO, censorship, paywalls.
it’s not the information age, it’s the data age.
Information implies usefulness. Data is just data. Could be right, could be wrong, who knows.
You could say the same thing about information, though. Information doesn’t necessarily imply usefulness. There is an infinitude of information in the universe which is useless to us.
I guess I should have said “correctness” instead of usefulness
Now we have graduated to the disinformation age:-(
Maybe we should start calling disinformation “Lore”
lore-posting time
Google has also disabled some of the search operators that made refining results more useful.
Like I don’t think the minus operator to exclude a search term works anymore.
Which is the most important one for me. It’s also really useful for filtering SEO crap that has 50,000 keywords attached to every page.
Is that a rollout thing? I was just using it last night
It really breaks when you’re using it multiple times in a string or combining it with other operators.