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Yes, Google made the Internet boring for ears now. How many results would you expect for terms like "war", "peace", "elon musk", "bill gates"? I would expect b

Yes, Google made the Internet boring for ears now. How many results would you expect for terms like "war", "peace", "elon musk", "bill gates"? I would expect billions. Google has the data. So why does it not want to share it with you? - One reason might be that you will not be interested in articles from 2011... but that is quite sinister to me. Why Google should decide if I want to see results from around Bush administration? - Second reason is that some links are not safe for Google. Google will not show you results for emulation, because it might violate some patents, IPs. It plays nice to the point in destroys the Internet. - That is why I created list of domains https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database. I can search for something using my own off-line Internet meta data - The other thing is someone mentioned to me that it is easier to maintain small list of links, which you can blocklist. For political reasons it is difficult to show the world as is - Google is a potemkin village that showed you really good result as the first link, while trimming all the remaining links. Redirecting traffic from small sites to corporate overlords, since it made good deals with them - In era where Internet is full of walled gardens, I think even Google might struggle to scrape everything from facebook, or amazon

mountainb 2y ago
It is sinister. The internet is just not a good resource for reliable information. There are some databases that are good resources, but they are not on the public internet. The few good public databases like Archive.org are being litigated into oblivion. The powerful people in the US have decided that they want the internet to be like the old network news. For a brief moment in time, the internet was pretty good. Not anymore. It is a place to go to be censored, monitored, exploited, and to receive your maintenance level of corpo-gov propaganda. The "social" features are just there to create illusions of real activity and for various "let 1000 flowers bloom" type propaganda operations in which lonely people are baited into stating extreme positions before they become victims of a 1984 five minute hate session.
- IAmNotACellist 2y ago
  I think the only real conversations happen on rare outposts like this, a few smaller subreddits, and the vast majority on Discord.
- inkorn6 2y ago
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IAmNotACellist 2y ago
There's so much human creativity they've locked up, that would otherwise be accessible for the benefit of the curious or bored. To get a taste of the old Internet I sometimes use https://wiby.me/ https://wiby.me/ , which gives you results like older search engines used to.

mountainb 2y ago

It is sinister. The internet is just not a good resource for reliable information. There are some databases that are good resources, but they are not on the public internet. The few good public databases like Archive.org are being litigated into oblivion. The powerful people in the US have decided that they want the internet to be like the old network news. For a brief moment in time, the internet was pretty good. Not anymore. It is a place to go to be censored, monitored, exploited, and to receive your maintenance level of corpo-gov propaganda. The "social" features are just there to create illusions of real activity and for various "let 1000 flowers bloom" type propaganda operations in which lonely people are baited into stating extreme positions before they become victims of a 1984 five minute hate session.

IAmNotACellist 2y ago
I think the only real conversations happen on rare outposts like this, a few smaller subreddits, and the vast majority on Discord.
inkorn6 2y ago
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IAmNotACellist 2y ago

There's so much human creativity they've locked up, that would otherwise be accessible for the benefit of the curious or bored. To get a taste of the old Internet I sometimes use https://wiby.me/ https://wiby.me/ , which gives you results like older search engines used to.