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[–] Debs@lemmy.zip 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

It kinda seems like the end of the Google era. What will we search Google for when the results are all crap? This is the death gasps of the internet I/we grew up with.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Remember when you could type a vague plot of a film you'd heard about into Google and it'd be the first result?

Nah doesn't work anymore

Saw a trailer for a french film so I searched "french film 2024 boys live in woods seven years"

Google - 2024 BEST FRENCH FILMS/TOP TEN FRENCH FILMS YOU MUST SEE THIS YEAR/ALL TIME BEST FRENCH MOVIES

Absolute fucking gash

I've not been too impressed with Kagi search, but at least the top result there was "Frères 2024"

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Remember when you could type a vague plot of a film you’d heard about into Google and it’d be the first result?

I honestly don't remember this at all. I remember priding myself on my "google-fu" and how to search it to get what i, or other people, needed. Which usually required understanding the precise language that you would need to use, not something vague. But over the years it's gotten harder and harder, and now I get frustrated with how hard it has become to find something useful. I've had to go back to finding places I trust for information and looking through them.

Although, ironically, I can do what you're talking about with ai now.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I honestly don't remember this at all.

It was absolutely a thing and one of the reasons Google became wildly popular at first

[–] EatATaco@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee -1 points 8 months ago
[–] Wiz@midwest.social 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Maybe web rings of the 90s were not such a bad idea! Let's bring 'em back!

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They would poison that shit as well unfortunately. The concept is great though.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Create sites that look like legit websites, then slowly ramp-up the bullshit. Same tactic as always.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 8 months ago

So? Every part of a web ring is a site the webmaster of which can remove that banner at any moment.

[–] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 3 points 8 months ago

Gemini webrings are the future?

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 0 points 8 months ago

I'm feeling myself old and I'm 28.

Cause in my early childhood in 2003-2007 we would resort to search engines only when we couldn't find something by better (but more manual and social) means.

Because - mwahahaha - most of the results were machine-generated crap.

So I actually feel very uplift due to people promising the Web to get back to norm in this sense.