Bethany BlackGoogle’s auto complete is like having an ADHD friend with a really low opinion of you, I start typing “How to stop keep getting” and it goes “thrush? Cold sores? Pregnant?” And I’m like, “no, tennis elbow” and then it loses interest and shows me 50 pages about the band Elbow and the French Open.
the escapist@BethanyBlack one could almost develop the impression that the monetization of search has decreased its efficacy
Nick's world@stavvers @BethanyBlack It's not apple. Apple is like having to deal with a secrotary who doesn't care about the job.
Walruses Я Us@BethanyBlack "does Macclesfield station have ticket barriers" produced this for me the other day
Dustin D. Wind@BethanyBlack It was bugging me the other day that I couldn't remember the source of something akin to "[will not] brook [your] insolence", so I googled brook insolence.
Good old Adwordle wanted to sell me Brooks insoles instead.
And I'm still amused by the time I wanted to know more about the Epstein Island cover-up, and it started trying to sell me beachwear (cover-up) to go over my bikini.
PetrichorLove@BethanyBlack I use DuckDuckGo. As a search engine that doesn’t track, it’s very friendly. It doesn’t provide the Google hilarity though so pros and cons
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Dziadek@BethanyBlack I agree. It seems to me that AI is too active on Google now. Trying to guess what we want, but delivering some sort of mish-mash. It used to put more weight on the first word, then filter with second and subsequent words. I had two searches where the first page contained nothing relevant at all. My last two Google searches ever, I should say