BlueSky Post.
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If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.
old guy takes long hit on the bong
“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”
Google was a "disrupter"
Which means they burnt investor money for years to deliver a great product while not making any profit.
Once they gain market share and are the default, enshitification begins and people eventually wonder why they're still using it.
My favorite is googling something, the first result is a reddit post asking the exact question I need answered. There is only one reply telling the OP that they could easily Google it instead of asking on Reddit.
"if you can believe it, at one point there were no search engines, and if you wanted to know what was out there you had to get a big book that listed all the websites."
*gasp!
Back in my day if you Googled failure the Whitehouse.gov webpage about George W. Bush would appear.
If you're not using adblock, you're doing it wrong anyway.
They're going to use the year chatGPT came out as an equivalent to how 1945 is used to calibrate radiometric tests. These days I don't trust any search result published 2022, as 95% of those first page results are ai generated garbage.
Back in my day, we had to hit Borders, Barnes & Noble, or Books-A-Million to find tech books to help us figure out what to do. Dot-com cubicle shelves always had a mini library.
O'Reilly made so much money.
That’s crazy, I love Kevin Hearne I didn’t know he was on bluesky. The Iron Druid books are great
I Bing stuff and like to Edge so hard at work, that I dont even miss Google.
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