Chris Conroy

@conroyforreal.bsky.social

RIP to the sentence “Here, let me Google that for you,” the single most useful clapback of the 00s and 10s, killed by Google becoming absolutely useless for discovering any correct information whatsoever

Aug 28, 2023 at 19:12 UTC

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🧡🌸Nyitah ΘΔ🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🔜FM, MFF @nyitah.online
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:42 UTC

Should now be “Lemme check Reddit.”

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HjFUN @hjfun.southbronxpara.site
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:56 UTC

Clearly you need to work on your google-fu because adding “wiki” after a search term still gets me a result I’ll settle with for lack of an alternative most of the time

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coᴍᴍɪssᴀʀ ʙeʟᴠeᴅeʀe (postcation arc) 🇵🇸 @wormwitch.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:29 UTC

Yeah fuck it really is shit now huh

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Mmmpi @mmmpi.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:27 UTC

Duck duck go yourself has a nice ring to it.

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Time Spinner @spinny.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:21 UTC

"Go to the library" at least is still going- oh no. aw crap. aw geez.

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Porky Bernmeister @porkybernmeister.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:28 UTC

What if I’m looking specifically for a bunch of identical AI generated top five or top ten lists about a topic?

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Charlotte Freeman @cmf406.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:24 UTC

I've been forced to use BING! And it's better ... argh

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Son of 8-Bits @sonof8bits.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:59 UTC

Or any website that's not part of Google's cronie network.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:11 UTC

I mean, Google’s results were always a little suss and had to be verified rather than just accepted but that’s even more true now. Or maybe there’s just more to sort through?

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Jukebox Judy @belovedladylove.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 01:13 UTC

Try
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuc...

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Kelly Thompson @kellythompson.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:52 UTC

I guess I wasn't paying enough attention but it feels like it went from "fine/normal" to "borderline/useless" in the span of like a week. Everything suuuuuuucks.

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Italienische Jeanskunst! @herrenturnen.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:25 UTC

Let me unwanted Temu ads that for you

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Woke Crematorium @gecafe.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 00:30 UTC

Yeah, "Here, let me Google and add the term 'reddit' to weed out the bullshit" does not have the same acerbic ring to it ☹️

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Fletch (🔬+🐝) @fletch.online
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 14:30 UTC

Yet another Google product killed by Google.

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CS @roadmeetsfeet.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 14:07 UTC

Just use quote marks. Even Alta Vista engineers knew that This Is The Way.

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Drew Schroeder @chubbycucumber.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:15 UTC

YouTube search has gotten a really useless over the last couple of months. If you search for something, you get irrelevant results almost every time.

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*Bratan* @mazov.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:52 UTC

What's the matter? You don't like a full page of ads before your misinformation?

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The Legend Rado Tharadus @utsanomiko.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:29 UTC

Amazing how one of the biggest companies in the world can coast for years after breaking their own products, and not innovating for over twenty years.

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Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:07 UTC

source???

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Drew @andrewbaron.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 04:09 UTC

Google failed twice as hard at this. When they rolled out their Chat-GPT competitor, they called it Bard? “Let me go over here instead and Bard that for you”?? It’s refreshing to see such a monolithic entity fall so hard over night. Gives hope.

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Matt “Deer Drifter” Walton @mriddickw.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:58 UTC

And also the greatest source of my frustration I search for something, and the first result is from 10 years ago, with the accepted answer being "just Google it." I DID YOU MOTHERFUCKER AND LOOK WHERE IT GOT ME.

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4Speech @4speech.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:00 UTC

"Let me Duck that 4 U" ...DuckDuckGo, that is. 😁

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Munchy @colinmunch.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:45 UTC

Holy shit yes. I'm trying to find outdoor speakers for an event and every single hit is an SEO-riddled content blog garbage pile for some totally unrelated product or service

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@landry1.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:08 UTC

All good things are temporary

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Kevin 💙💛 @kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:54 UTC

it's super annoying when you're talking to someone who knows the definitive answer off the top of their head and they won't just give it to you. Especially when it would take less time to tell you than type out LMGTFY.

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Kim Sutherland Mills @bacciogelato.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:26 UTC

Time to return to our public libraries for reliable information - librarians are trained to assess validity of sources, consolidate data from multiple resources, and get the answer you need. For free.

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Eryk Donovan @erykdonovan.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:56 UTC

So is it "Here, let me GPT that for you" ??

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Rosie Galax--~~ERROR~~ @rosiegalaxy.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:17 UTC

Lemme DuckDuckGo that for you....

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Nerdahedron @nerdahedron.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:26 UTC

Whats the better choice now? DDG?

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Maddy @maddycodes.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:37 UTC

more reliable than GPT 4

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Matt Collins @mattophobia.ie
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:49 UTC

In a recent episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds, James T Kirk said "Guy at the Apple Store taught me how to use DuckDuckGo" which was one of the weirdest things I've ever heard in Trek.

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@bagofbleeps.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:30 UTC

I think the only reason people are impressed by "AI" is that you can search without the SEO nonsense from copy/paste parasites.

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Tamirel @tamirel.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:46 UTC

I genuinely have been shocked how useless googling has become in the last few months. I hope someone comes to fill the gap.

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Prosediva @prosediva.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 10, 2024 at 06:12 UTC

Google is no longer our friend?

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mellonite @mellonite.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:02 UTC

SEO killed search engines

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:31 UTC

"But would you like to use our AI now?" - Google

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Dëad Børkchettå @deadbarchetta.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:50 UTC

It is really saying something that I now go back to Reddit for useful information on my esoteric hobbies (which is all of my hobbies, if I'm being honest). How did Google fuck this one up so soundly?

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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:46 UTC

i think it also got fucked up along the way by ghouls learning SEO

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Renee @renaissancedreamer.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:44 UTC

Yea, kinda like we all shelved “avoid this like the Plague”

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Arc @arcbreak.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:29 UTC

It’s so wild even googling locations for directions feels dicey now

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Fleetwood Macchiato @bikechilliwack.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:32 UTC

Let me Encarta that for you

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Secretoriginz @secretoriginz.bsky.social
[ View ] Apr 23, 2024 at 21:51 UTC

What is at the heart of corporate America's fascination for self immolation?

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Secretoriginz @secretoriginz.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:32 UTC

I think people had abandoned Google long before they had any reason to. Everyone just started asking their questions to strangers on social media.

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Stephen B. @thatstephenb.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:21 UTC

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Matt Golden 🏳️‍🌈 @emgolden.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:35 UTC

Google: “Don’t be evil.” <a little later> Google: “Ok we can have just a little evil, as a treat. We’ve earned it.” <a little later> Google: “We seek to cover all the lands with a second darkness.”

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Karpov's Machine @karpovsmachine.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:57 UTC

"Google it" is now more frequently the clarion call of the Boomer who has no fucking clue what they're talking about but thinks they saw it SOMEWHERE on the internet once.

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Amanda Sahar d’Urso @asdurso.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 10:35 UTC

Let me google that for you but add “Reddit” at the end 😮‍💨

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Paula Schaap @redsonja.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:33 UTC

Wikipedia forever!

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WerewolfLord @werewolflord.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 30, 2023 at 01:52 UTC

I stopped using Google as my primary search engine over a decade ago, but I still use "google it". Let's keep saying it.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic...

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SPAM @therealspam.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 01:34 UTC

"Let me Bing that for you"

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Passing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social
[ View ] Oct 15, 2023 at 17:34 UTC

In the early days we library folk knew it was faster to Google than to find a known item in our own online catalog. And all those nifty proximity tools. Youth today don't appreciate the old Google. It's shit.

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Lynne Calvert of New Mexico @lynnemarienm.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:56 UTC

Where’s Mr. Jeeves when you need him?

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Lynne Calvert of New Mexico @lynnemarienm.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:55 UTC

Most accurate thing I’ve read in months. What a waste of time Google has become. They’ve joined the clickbait swamp of useless ads.

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Dustin Brett @dustinbrett.com
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:04 UTC

Now the phrase means, "let me show you a page of ads"

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Richard Brooks @richardabrooks.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:39 UTC

Then Google becomes the byword for chaff and misdirection “Aw man you got googled bad!” Google eyes, seeing anything but the truth

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✊🏾🇵🇷Vita Ayala🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @definitelyvita.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:42 UTC

We as Elder Millennials/Xellennials/Gen X need to quickly teach those webring surfing and library/microfilm research skills we learned as youth to the Zoomers and Alpha kids so they can continue to use (accurate) knowledge for Chaotic Good

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@utopian.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 09:33 UTC

Are people just playing up their incompetence for exagerative effect? I use Google probably 20 times a day and only occasionally can't find something.

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Amy Cogan @whynotgrl67.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:40 UTC

yeah... its fine for shopping but beyond that yuck its a mess

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FoxxArie @foxxarie.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:25 UTC

Now that I think about it, you're right! And I didn't even realize til' now! GODDAMN-

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Lamentation Smythe @lamentationsmythe.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:38 UTC

It was sooo good RIP 😢

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Spiderbird2018 @spiderbird.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:18 UTC

What’s a good alternative?

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Stella V @stellastardust.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:50 UTC

I forget where I heard it, but the idea now is you put whatever query you had into google and just add "reddit" at the end because the reddit results are generally better but reddit's search function sucks majorly. Weird how the internet kinda broke.

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:34 UTC

I've had top results falsely claim that bearnaise sauce can be frozen, which I simply don't believe. What sort of bad info is everyone else getting?

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Icewind Dale Gribble @phyrexianmetamour.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:22 UTC

2020s era of “bing it yourself asshole”

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🔻falcon-delivered al-Yassin 105 𓅃 @merthyr1831.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 09:56 UTC

let me duckduckgo that for you

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:33 UTC

Good times

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SK MetaBoxx @sk-metaboxx.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:36 UTC

I like to say the most absurd thing you ever heard followed by, "Bing it if you don't believe it."

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crystal joy music @crystaljoymusic.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 01:44 UTC

"Here, let me Google dork that for you" doesn't have the same ring to it.

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🅱️rendan! At the Disco @visarts.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:32 UTC

Google's decline is one of the, if not THE, single biggest contributors to the decline of the Internet as a whole

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George W Harris @bullcityfats.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:27 UTC

Also the line "Does Google not work for you?" Now, Google doesn't work for *anyone*

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Pocket Cindy @pocketcindy.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:35 UTC

See also "Google is free." Who would pay for it now?

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AppliedNewtonianOnEarth @refunfunyadora.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:18 UTC

May I recommend DuckDuckGo? It seems to work pretty well for me.

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David Bowman @dlbowman76.com
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:25 UTC

There's a parable here. Google built the single most useful research tool in the history of humanity over the course of 2 decades and obliterated its utility within 24 months because of greed.

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Socialism for All / S4A ☭ Intensify Class Struggle @socialismforall.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:10 UTC

RIP the YouTube search engine as well

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Travis Retriever @travisretriever.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 30, 2024 at 17:49 UTC

Like, it's the point where people are doing what 5 years ago was considered inconceivable: they're actually using Bing. Like, unironically.

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Travis Retriever @travisretriever.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 30, 2024 at 17:47 UTC

Mhm. It has aged like milk. I'm reminded of when I Googled "vegan cat diet" re: info on why that is a HORRIBLE idea (which it is!) and got greeted with the top results being instructions on how to feed them a vegan diet. Fucking hell, Google, how you have fallen from grace.

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John Conor Ryan @johnconorryan.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:35 UTC

So much of this is true. For a while, I used Neeva exclusively as search. It failed as a business and so, back to Google. I was truly, truly stunned at how mediocre it was at anything other than covering my screen with paid-for results. / more

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honey 🍯 @h0ney.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:21 UTC

you sit there scrolling through 3 pages trying to find an article actually about the subject

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Andrew F. Duarte @onedrewtogo.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 22:00 UTC

“Let me reddit that for you” it’s just not the same :(

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MillionsOfBeautifulAngels @massivextreme.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:02 UTC

Even google images is ruined now thanks to the wonders of AI

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Jeff Chausse @jeffchausse.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 01:39 UTC

“Let me Google that with ‘reddit’ on the end of it for you.”

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TS @ts.boardit.no
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:51 UTC

Googling the name for the Norwegian Tax Office (Skatteetaten) now presents you with an ad for a fake version that tries to steal your national logon credentials. GG!

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XtopherSD 🏳️‍🌈 @xtophersd.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:06 UTC

I *loved* the website...

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Stirling @stirlo.be
[ View ] Sep 03, 2023 at 07:53 UTC

I typically use DDG, wifey prefers Bing for her uses.. never expected Google to lose their lead in search, imo if they ever kill Gmail that's the last major flag before they kill off Search and go full advertising and marketing/ spying on customer data and selling that

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Steven Alleyn @stevenalleyn.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:41 UTC

Also their assistant responses deteriorating dramatically over the last 24 months and their inability to stay relevant because they constantly kill every new service they launch within 18 months

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TheBigMansini @thebigmansini.bsky.social
[ View ] Sep 14, 2023 at 21:11 UTC

Information... Do people still use that?

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PigeonFish @thepigeonfish.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:46 UTC

I replaced Google with DuckDuckGo years ago, but I still call it "Googling" sometimes. 😑

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Dert6 @hexedbydert.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:01 UTC

Also killed off "Google is free"

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Joe Hocking @joehocking.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:56 UTC

man I can't believe this website still exists letmegooglethat.com

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Paul Jessup says buy a copy of The Skinless Man Counts to Five @pauljessup.com
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:18 UTC

and AI is just making it worse and worse

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Dantastic @dantastic.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:14 UTC

We'll be back to looking in encyclopedias in a few years.

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Moldy Warp @moldywarp.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:34 UTC

“Here, lemme ask CharGPT” Also obsolete

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Starlit_Stella @starlilstella.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:19 UTC

This is Gold.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:51 UTC

There even was a site called something like let me google that for you and you could send people a link and when it opened would just show the whole process of the googling

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Jonathan Comets @tinyweasel.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:57 UTC

Also I just bought a Google phone and it got stolen in the mail to the repair shop and they won't fill out a simple form so I can get compensation. Fuck Google.

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Terklin @terklin.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:37 UTC

It's surprisingly effective for finding misinformation though???

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Kal🔞 @kalidragonx.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:57 UTC

Here. lemme ask chat gpt. lawl

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Dylan, 💯% Procedural @urzaz.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:36 UTC

I've gotten A/B test surveys from them for years and every question is like, "If we add this random trash to the top of the search results, how would you prefer it looks?"

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Dennis Cartier @dcartier.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 07:07 UTC

Back when Google first became a thing, I could type my full name into Google and the first 6 pages of results were All links related to me and my posts. Now, unless I am a Belgian DJ kid, you got the wrong Dennis Cartier.

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Cavalo RIPonga @cavaloriponga.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:12 UTC

Did I hear RIP???

bsky.app/profile/cava...

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Snuskebill @snuskebill.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:40 UTC

Do you Yahoo?

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Teddy Ray @teddyray.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:15 UTC

I must have missed something. I've never had a problem with Google.

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Christopher Helton @dorkland.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:33 UTC

I went to Google something today and got a pop up asking if I wanted to augment the search with AI. I do not, sir. I never want that.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:31 UTC

Send me your queries to debug when this happens.

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Goth Music Latin America @gothmusiclatam.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 02:48 UTC

Let me Bing that for you

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bzzzt @bzzzt.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:35 UTC

BZZZZZzzzzzzttttt....

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MindCrime @mindcrime.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:35 UTC

"post truth era" wasn't hyperbole

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Ryan Higgins @ryanhiggins.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:40 UTC

This was the tweet that made me install DuckDuckGo on Chrome. Let's see how it goes.

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Even Yami is eating slop (汚水) ⁉️ Bushido has fallen.. @bigfloppa.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 30, 2023 at 07:18 UTC

"Here, let me Google site:reddit.com that for you" sadly doesn't roll off the tongue that well

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*That* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:49 UTC

Any workable replacements yet? I mean, I’m not hopeful… but… maybe?

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H. Houlahan @pavlovsbitch.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:01 UTC

I just told an idjit to google me and later realized that it was not going to improve her embrace of ignorance if she did.

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Cap'n Peanut B Crunch! #PermanentCeasefireNow #FreePalestine @peanutbcrunch.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:07 UTC

Feels at times like some older exec got mad that their granddaughter looked something up they didn't know so quickly, so they started sabotaging the working infrastructure out of spite.

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Willie Dustice @williedustice.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:25 UTC

Lemme Ask Jeeves for you

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@mimikyuspookerstar.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 16:07 UTC

what’s going on with google? seems fine enough to me

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troy farah @voidvaporvortex.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 13:54 UTC

bard and chatgpt are the future of search, they will work amazingly for a few years and then slowly start to suck and then those brain chips will seem super attractive...

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j-e-l @jelbugle.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:16 UTC

They need to introduce Boolean operators

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Mareks Matisons @marruciic.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 07:05 UTC

whoo hooo hooo - Google is delivering correct answers for me daily, every day, every time (: there's no better search invented yet

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Skanedog @skanedog.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 08:01 UTC

It's remarkable how bad it's become. Even when searching for specific websites or actual named things the official link is buried beneath screeds of shitposter links, ads, and stupid AI prompts. Also, good to see you on here! One more reason to never use Twitter again :)

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Godzilla could fix this. @amcatanzaro.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 13:19 UTC

Where's @caseynewton.bsky.social on this one? This is what LLMs are killing directly and quickly.
"How major brands (HBO, Twitter, Google) are directly killing most effective marketing."

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Jeffrey Sax @routingwonk.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:41 UTC

Since Google and Meta removed news sources in Canada I have had to vpn to find national news other than my usual sources. It means only the misinformation persists.

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David Harper @davidharper.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:30 UTC

I just want Google Image Search to help me find images of certain sizes. Is that so much to ask??? (yes) (yes it is)

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Olivier @olivierjiujitsu.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 05:18 UTC

If you know how to use Google correctly, you'll always find the answer.

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TheDrev @thedrev.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:26 UTC

Actually, I would say "I am not your Google monkey" all the time, then I got a weeklong ban on Facebook because someone said it was racist. Apparently the old saying about 1000 monkeys with 1000 typewriters would be deemed racist as well.

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TheDrev @thedrev.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:25 UTC

"Let me Chat GPT that for you"???

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DVS @dvsblast.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:11 UTC

here let me google that for u....says here "FREE MEDICINE CLICK HARE SOCIALSECURITY MUMBER"

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David W Stoesz @davidstoesz.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:37 UTC

This really became vivid to me last week when I was stuck in rural WA with a dying phone looking for a nearby locksmith to get into my car. Trying to discern which results are legit is now its own fun little research project.

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Debate Stomping Robot @jwatte.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 00:28 UTC

"what does the robot say" was my substitute, but the current set of robots just isn't that factual...

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Maiaesque @maijahesque.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:40 UTC

Where the fuck do we go for info?

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Myoukochou @myoukochou.com
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 12:43 UTC

And I’m not at all sure it’s a problem AI can solve, as it’s an endless arms race of generative models (ever since Markov models to LLMs) versus detection/classification/discrimination models. They don’t want to allowlist sites. But they must. But when even mostly-legit media also post GPT content…

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@moriartystjames.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:12 UTC

here let me ad spam that for you.

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Travis Dawry @tdawry.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:39 UTC

Is this due to opting into their silly AI labs stuff, or just normal search?

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Crisp Cringle @workinprogress.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 13:22 UTC

Cannot believe Google wrecked their primary product and infinite money machine cause some techbros created a copyright breaking predictive text machine. Real "slam dick in car door" energy.

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Ali Avali | Extra Life 2024 @avali.live
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:06 UTC

If you suck at googling just say it. Some of us do it for our job and can get the correct information pretty rapidly.

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@wayner.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:38 UTC

But it also spawned a very good snarky website. letmegooglethat.com

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Malaclypse the Fetus @omfproductions.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 13:15 UTC

Just yesterday I said to myself "lmgtfy.com must be useless now..."

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SanMarcos 🍉🍒🚤🏭 Meme thief @sanmarcos.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 15:41 UTC

Besides, almost the entire first page now is dedicated to paid advertising links. The number of ads grow each year. Pretty soon we'll have to wade through pages of promoted links to get to anything meaningful.

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William @darn.fish
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:37 UTC

hammer.lol

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Girthy Ken Doll @dlistbear.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:23 UTC

Let me chatGPT that for you

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benstylus 🐧 @benstylus.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 09, 2024 at 14:14 UTC

It's got so bad that yesterday out of desperation I went to see if Lycos search was still a thing. (It is, but it wasn't much more helpful sadly)

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ososxe @ososxe.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:30 UTC

Is there any tool that can compare the same search results on several search engines? That would be something great, like a trivago of search

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Nick † Wright @nickwrightdata.ntw.app
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:17 UTC

I'm THIS CLOSE to quitting my job and creating a front-end for Wikidata/Wikipedia that can answer questions--but *accurately* and *doesn't rely on AI* to generate truth statements.

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Nellyaa @nellyaa.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 08:42 UTC

Heavily accelerated by the rise of the cancer that is ChatGPT.

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N-TG @n-tg.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:21 UTC

I find myself using Yandex more and more. It's kinda sad.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 23:23 UTC

"enshittification" is such a great word--is @doctorow here yet?

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SILVER YOTE!! 🏳️‍🌈 @AC @silveryote.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:33 UTC

Bing is the dark horse. It's absolutely mind-blowing what bing can do as of this year

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ᄂΣƧ MΛᄃΉIПΣƧ ПӨIЯΣƧ @machinesnoires.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 01:04 UTC

Ask the duck! ; )

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Mr French Fries @mrfrenchfries.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:52 UTC

I will never, ever, forgive our representatives for letting them buy YouTube

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DevonianStone @devonianstone.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:39 UTC

really done with them guessing what i might be looking for

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Mark Jaffe, 5 Bridges Law @markjkings.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 13:42 UTC

For sure I was hoping we'd all notice

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Mitchi @micoyc.net
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 01:13 UTC

It works fine for me

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Rain @feesh.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 22:19 UTC

Unfortunately for me this is still very relevant and helpful to me for finding most resources, just use the right query and pay attention to your sources ...

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Just a little guy and it’s my birthday @robbykarol.bsky.social
[ View ] Mar 09, 2024 at 14:44 UTC

Hilarious that Wikipedia has now emerged as relatively more reliable now, after years of being taught not to use it!

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Sean of the 418 I'm a teapot @sheepbop.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:24 UTC

enshittification FTW

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Sean of the 418 I'm a teapot @sheepbop.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 20:22 UTC

Even before LLM turned up.

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jenna maroney fan account @carlyraeflexin.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 11:31 UTC

"I don't know, have you Asked Jeeves?"

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Matt Aquin @mattaquin.bsky.social
[ View ] Feb 10, 2024 at 19:18 UTC

Theres gonna be a website that asks AI for a snarky response

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Tavos Silva 🇵🇸 @tavosmm.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 19:58 UTC

"Let me Duck Duck Go that for you" just doesn't roll off the tongue quite that well =/

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In Da' Indica! @indaindica.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 00:16 UTC

'Here... let me Duck Duck Go! that for you!'

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Bob Calhoun @bobcalhoun.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 28, 2023 at 21:14 UTC

“Here, let me DuckDuckGo that for you” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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Papa Smirk @papasmirk.bsky.social
[ View ] Aug 29, 2023 at 17:45 UTC

Here, let me Google and sift through 5 pages of search-engine-optimized irrelevant content and promoted links for you. Lacks the snark of the original, don't it?

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