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I remember that when I started googling, I would often go to page 2,3,4,5 to find what I wanted. These days I never go past the first page. I actually had to ch

I remember that when I started googling, I would often go to page 2,3,4,5 to find what I wanted. These days I never go past the first page. I actually had to check now that there was still a page switcher... What changed the most? How good I am at formulating a query? What kind of information I'm looking for? How good Google is at curating the first page? How much information is available? Sure hope its not that my queries are more trivial, or that my preferences for answers favors simpler,easier ones... Thankfully I still get lost on Wikipedia (and Youtube), in a kind of what-is-all-this-I-need-to-know-more learning spree.

agumonkey 9y ago
A bunch of factor: - we became impatient if not lazy - google does a huge job at parsing complex queries - the content is more organized in itself (html semantic markup, meaningful css classes, etc etc) The other day I tried a tails/tor and .. i cant recall.. ipfs probably. This network is bare, so bare I felt excited just like the 56K days. It quickly went bad because there's a huge % of bad / crazy content, but still I felt entering a more interesting territory as a visitor.
forapurpose 9y ago
> Thankfully I still get lost on Wikipedia (and Youtube), in a kind of what-is-all-this-I-need-to-know-more learning spree. I know what you mean, but should we be thankful? Learning is stimulating, but are we just indulging in it with little or negative results because we are acquiring misinformation?