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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/whitepeopletwitter
 

BlueSky Post.

Transcript.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.”

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No, they most certainly broke it. Instead of just searching for what you type in, it now "interprets" your query and the interpretation is always whatever has more ads. If you switch to Verbatim mode, the results are noticeably better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can switch to verbatim mode?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Tools -> dropdown "All results" and select "Verbatim"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That looks good! Thanks!