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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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] 3 points 10 months ago

Searx is your friend

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This goes straight into my Hall of Fame (aka the vault i'll give to my grandsons, the ones I'll never have)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Don't put yourself down like that. Your time will come.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

True, but try to tell someone to "DuckDuckGo it"... :-D

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I think at this point 'Google it' means pretty much the same thing as 'Photoshopped.' There's a good chance that whoever made the meme or whatever is not paying Adobe for it or pirating it and just using something like GIMP or some web-based image editor. But we still call it Photoshopped.

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