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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Tofu Golem

@lori
What you get from a search is profoundly different from what other people get from a Google search.

Why do so few people understand this?

If Google isn't giving you what you want, that's a good thing. That means it has yet to learn what you like. Otherwise, Google becomes your own personal echo chamber endlessly reinforcing what you already believe.