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Google's downfall was set in motion long ago ... it's only the last two or three years some people found they were trying to use a search engine that was basica
by anenefan 4y ago
Google's downfall was set in motion long ago ... it's only the last two or three years some people found they were trying to use a search engine that was basically inoperative past a basic insert keywords and lets see what pops out. Maybe people like myself that started finding hard limits four years ago might have merely just been part of some A / B test or perhaps it's just I choose long ago not to share my private data since I've denied a number of API scrapers that had no permission or business poking the internals of my system.
But I don't level all the blame at google, I also place some blame the folks who create web sites and yes sure it's nice to see 100 to 500 words thrust up amongst images all pretty like, and fancy tables and interactive, but it's not so bright to not also include text output options for other search engines as well as those who still use simple text browsers or older OS systems.
I'll cheer the day a startup offers a search engine for the world wide web (ie not just for special browsers and geolocations) ... and simply ignores sites that are clever enough to print up your browser is out of date or location no good, instead of just offering a non javascript entry of however few words they have ... Of course some pages are interactive and probably not suited ... but then again, they usually don't contain much info or have chosen that format so as not to share that info without a good scrape of the user trying to access it.