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.

(I posted about this on Twitter once but just the part about not telling people to Google things without explicitly adding the woodworking story and got ten thousand people yelling at me for "telling marginalized people that it's their job to educate ignorant people", which is part of the reason I am so glad to be free of Twitter because this was the least charitable reading of my point ever and way outside of the scope of what I was talking about)
@lori I remember back in the day google used to actually be scarily good at helping you find information. It’s gotten so bad since then. Hard to word things to get info..and this is even using their specialized search tools that not everyone knows about. Not sure what the answer is here since they still dominate search. Maybe someone will come up with something better.
@cenobyte @lori I just think about how when you google a tech question, 90% of the time you get the same few sites - some of them scrape from other sites and don't do a great job of it, some are SEO bait that want you to buy a product, and eventually you might get a relevant StackOverflow post. It's grim.
@lunarloony @cenobyte @lori and you finally find a page with info and it's a damned video with 3 mins of shitty intro and then trying to follow the tiny cursor as the bad narrator clicks buttons 3 times a second...
@kincaid @cenobyte @lori Invariably in 144p
@lunarloony @kincaid @lori Oh my go the truth. I hate videos for tech stuff