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A web search tip to avoid AI generated SEO junk (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 212 points 2 years ago* (12 children)

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.

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  • [–] [S] 126 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 68 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Google has also disabled some of the search operators that made refining results more useful.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Like I don't think the minus operator to exclude a search term works anymore.

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