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Reminds me of Google instructions for treating a seizure, flipping "do nots" into "do's": https://nitter.net/soft/status/1449406390976409600 https://nitter.net/

by veeti 5y ago

Reminds me of Google instructions for treating a seizure, flipping "do nots" into "do's": https://nitter.net/soft/status/1449406390976409600 https://nitter.net/soft/status/1449406390976409600

userbinator 5y ago
I wish stuff like that would convince most people to actually read the pages' contents instead of consuming Google's digested excrement. I hate how Google Search is trying to turn into something other than a search engine.
- b112 5y ago
  It seems to get stuff wrong as often as not...
  - cortesoft 5y ago
    I bet that is confirmation bias. You probably don't notice all the times it gets it right, but really notice when it gets it wrong.
    - genewitch 5y ago
      Google gets search results so hilariously (or horrifically) wrong so often that I stopped using it, ever. If ddg doesn't have what I need, I'll ask on matrix or IRC or literally anywhere else. Google removed nuance from search terms and results a long time ago, and sometime after 2014 took to flat out lying about when pages were first seen. This makes it completely worthless for research, education, and basically anything. I was going to say looking up a phone number for a business, but Google maps is the faster way to get a valid result for that, as it stands. So, after spending a decade and a half becoming the Kleenex of search engines, they made themselves just as disposable, for the name of ad revenue. Good work, everyone!
      - cortesoft 5y ago
        > for the name of ad revenue. I mean, that is literally why the exist? They only provide a search service in order to generate ad revenue… if they didn’t have ad revenue, they would just shut down search.
        behringer 5y ago
        when they started they were competing against yahoo and altavista and others which had less useful results. Their service has akways been about giving good results. Now that they have results arguably worse than 1998 search engines, their ads aren't going to pay the bills for much longer. In fact it already seems to be that Google ads aren't creating as much revenue as it used to for advertisers.
- MisterTea 5y ago
  Google's featured snippets is a waste of screen real estate and time.
- amelius 5y ago
  In an emergency situation you can't blame people for not clicking through, because of ads, popups, etc. which all take valuable time to ignore/load/get past.
  - blooalien 5y ago
    You make yet another excellent argument against the insane proliferation of out of control advertising to add to the already huge list of reasons that human society needs to bring that garbage industry under control.
cldellow 5y ago
Google also once presented an official canada.ca website as claiming you didn't need to pay income tax, because it had been declared unconstitutional in a court case: https://mobile.twitter.com/cldellow/status/1317464432616898560 https://mobile.twitter.com/cldellow/status/13174644326168985...
- lutoma 5y ago
  What I find even more worrying than the wrong info box itself is that Google still gives the wrong answer to the "Central park value" search query from the start of that twitter thread, more than a year later and after countless people have probably reported the info box as problematic. You would think they would at least have a manual human review system.

by veeti 5y ago

Reminds me of Google instructions for treating a seizure, flipping "do nots" into "do's": https://nitter.net/soft/status/1449406390976409600 https://nitter.net/soft/status/1449406390976409600

userbinator 5y ago

I wish stuff like that would convince most people to actually read the pages' contents instead of consuming Google's digested excrement. I hate how Google Search is trying to turn into something other than a search engine.

b112 5y ago
It seems to get stuff wrong as often as not...
- cortesoft 5y ago
  I bet that is confirmation bias. You probably don't notice all the times it gets it right, but really notice when it gets it wrong.
  - genewitch 5y ago
    Google gets search results so hilariously (or horrifically) wrong so often that I stopped using it, ever. If ddg doesn't have what I need, I'll ask on matrix or IRC or literally anywhere else. Google removed nuance from search terms and results a long time ago, and sometime after 2014 took to flat out lying about when pages were first seen. This makes it completely worthless for research, education, and basically anything. I was going to say looking up a phone number for a business, but Google maps is the faster way to get a valid result for that, as it stands. So, after spending a decade and a half becoming the Kleenex of search engines, they made themselves just as disposable, for the name of ad revenue. Good work, everyone!
    - cortesoft 5y ago
      > for the name of ad revenue. I mean, that is literally why the exist? They only provide a search service in order to generate ad revenue… if they didn’t have ad revenue, they would just shut down search.
      - behringer 5y ago
        when they started they were competing against yahoo and altavista and others which had less useful results. Their service has akways been about giving good results. Now that they have results arguably worse than 1998 search engines, their ads aren't going to pay the bills for much longer. In fact it already seems to be that Google ads aren't creating as much revenue as it used to for advertisers.
MisterTea 5y ago
Google's featured snippets is a waste of screen real estate and time.
amelius 5y ago
In an emergency situation you can't blame people for not clicking through, because of ads, popups, etc. which all take valuable time to ignore/load/get past.
- blooalien 5y ago
  You make yet another excellent argument against the insane proliferation of out of control advertising to add to the already huge list of reasons that human society needs to bring that garbage industry under control.

cldellow 5y ago

Google also once presented an official canada.ca website as claiming you didn't need to pay income tax, because it had been declared unconstitutional in a court case: https://mobile.twitter.com/cldellow/status/1317464432616898560 https://mobile.twitter.com/cldellow/status/13174644326168985...

lutoma 5y ago
What I find even more worrying than the wrong info box itself is that Google still gives the wrong answer to the "Central park value" search query from the start of that twitter thread, more than a year later and after countless people have probably reported the info box as problematic. You would think they would at least have a manual human review system.