RE: https://xoxo.zone/@ilovecomputers/116275772384259836

Remember when "Google Fu" was a thing? Google perfected internet search, and once every competitor had been driven out of the game, they very intentionally killed internet search, and it has never recovered.

@RachelThornSub
I used to have tons of fun using my Google Fu skills hunting open directories of eBooks and random media nobody cares about, built a pretty substantial archive of the stuff.

Using those same techniques now just serves up tired and mediocre results with a side of irrelevent ads. I sorta fell out of open directory hunting after that. There seems to be no great way to do it anymore.