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I don't look up bugs very much but I'm jealous you got to do my childhood dream of entomology in some way.
Can you add keywords such as prominent authors, publication names, terms only researchers would use etc? If you've been doing for a long time don't you have resources to start from such as works you've relied on previously? And there is always the trick of using the date search feature to exclude the past few years.
Is it possible that you have progressed in the level of work you are doing such that purchasing published resources rather than just typing the name of a creature into a searchengine is required? Maybe you would always have gotten to this point?
I agree with your overall point though. I would like to see more development in bespoke community search engines comparable to the fediverse for social media. If you and other people who are in your field could create your own search indexes from sources which are reputable. They could even have federation.
Nah, it used to be waaaaay easier to find shit that wasn't terrible.
It's going to be tough for people who never lived through the good times to understand that not everything used to be a "TOP 10 SENTENCES" article with affiliate links to buy alphabet stickers because you made the mistake of using to word "the" in your query. I fully know what you mean and it is infuriating.
Me when I remember that the internet used to be essentially an encyclopaedia and a bunch of fan pages
You can still do entomology... get into iNaturalist. I am not an entomologist but have learned a lot just from posting pictures of what I have found.