Mastodawn

lori Dec 8, 2022

A while back I saw an r/woodworking post where someone was asking for resources for woodworking plans. A few people told them to Google it.

If you Google it you get absolute horseshit. Just page after page of useless results. So we need to stop the fucking "let me google that for you" era and recognize that search is entirely broken in the modern day. We NEED human recommendations and information sharing now more than ever.

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Whitmad

@lori

The irony is that in the early days of the internet, pre-google, search was broken. Google came along with their pagerank algorithm and everything was wonderful, for a while.

Nowadays, the combination of vast amounts of complete crap on the internet combined with commercial interests gaming the algorithm has put us back to square one.