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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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Pennywhether

@lori Google results are BS in a lot of ways. A search will claim to have millions or billions of results, but if one tests the validity of that by going from result page to result page, around the 20th - 40th page or so a lot of results bottom out and it then says that there are only a few hundred results available, not the aforementioned millions or billions. That's even taking into account forcing omitted results to be displayed.