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blackhawks

03/27/23 10:44 AM

#440292 RE: B402 #440284

As I listened I wondered why am I not experiencing the Google search difficulties, challenges, siloing of info that the speaker talks about.

I don't consider copying and pasting a salient portion of a post; a junk science claim, a sweeping generalization, a shopworn conspiracy theory, to be particularly sophisticated. Neither does putting the salient point into the form of a question gain me admittance to MENSA.

But I generally find what I'm looking for, corroboration of accuracy or confirmation of bat shit.

At the top of the my Google toll bar are the following:

News
Images
Videos
Books
Maps
Shopping
Flights
Finance

You click one of those categories and 'all' then appears on the top left of the page; that's the default search, and unless I'm looking for an image or a video, 'all' IS the universe I want to search.

On occasion I've lost Google as the default search on my browser and Bing or Yahoo is the default search engine. I use them a few times and then re-default Google. Instead of 'Eureka I've found the best search engine', my reaction was 'this is shit, what happened?' Then I look up an see Bing or Yahoo in the address box.

How about this theory? Google, any search engine, is as good as what the user brings to the table. Are you credulous to a fault, skeptical or agnostic? Do you have critical thinking skills or are you a cherry picker unaware of confirmation bias?

Or are you just too damned lazy to formulate, or copy and paste, a useful, valid, query?
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Zorax

03/27/23 11:11 AM

#440296 RE: B402 #440284

That's easy, it became google ads for sale. Haven't used goog for years and don't miss it.
But you can't escape it if you use phones or computers even if you don't search with it.