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I was thinking just yesterday how insane I must sound to younger generations when I say that a decade ago you could just type into google a few half remembered words or phrases from a quote, book, song or movie etc and boom you'd have the answer. Now if you type the artist/author/person/characters exact name and the exact quote you're still more likely to get things selling you stuff only broadly related or random articles that have maximised SEO and taken top spot etc. But it's true.
I've had to start adding any random YouTube video I like to my favourites because there's a fucking solid chance that even searching the exact title will result in the algorithm refusing to find the video for me
And YouTube for some reason loves to serve slop with absolutely disgusting thumbnails for literally anything one can search
Relevant video about this: https://youtu.be/Z3dSkkEr-wk
Its weird because for some things you can see the change still. I'm replaying an old pokemon game (platinum), and if I add platinum to the search for a bit of info, I get the old reliable sites: Bulbapedia, Serebii, Pokemondb. Specific questions route to gamefaqs, top answer is exactly what I need.
If I do this for the latest pokemon, i get gamesradar, game8, gamewith. I have to scroll past asinine bullshit that nobody was ever asking to begin with, and the info is months out of date or incomplete. Thankfully, the old sites still keep that info up and old heads search out the good sites specifically, so it always hits the top page .
Interesting to have the comparison right there and see directly how things have changed.
I honestly think the death of forum culture was a huge mistake. Reddit was so convenient woth its single login but wow is it not the place to build a subculture.
Discord has been awful for this as well. So much information is now unsearchable and walled off unless you just happen to be sitting in the right discord servers.
I think I’m the only one I know who uses text based social media.
I'm actually surprised some company hasn't created an SEO gaming trick to send their totally automated AI crafted neo-listical garbage to the top of the google results.
1001 Best Movies!
1001 Best Songs!
1001 Best Books!
1001 Best Movies Quotes!
1001 Best Songs Quotes!
1001 Best Books Quotes!
1001 Best [Whatever]...
Yeah, uh...welcome to 2021...
700 of the quotes are the same quote
It's worrying that people already forget/or are too young to remember how much better it was