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it's crazy how those comments are aging like milk precisely because google/web search is going to shit (in addition to being dickhead comments ofc)
just weird to look back and think about how we thought it would never change
YouTube searches are also truly awful, and have been for around a year.
a friend of mine discovered the tip to add "before:2025" (or, the current year+1) to your yt search to improve it. i have no clue why that does anything but it reverts it to pre-enshittified functionality
To give google 1(one) droplet of credit, the enshittification didn't come from them alone. In fact I'm fairly sure that if they could get their way, the page would still return useful results, only, JUST below all the paid ads. SEO Spam doesn't help THEM either.
The problem is... A lot of the "good" results on google came from like. Enthusiast websites. Webforums. And... Reddit.
Enthusiast Websites are much rarer now. They got consolidated into media conglomerates and then closed down. Only a few remain.
Webforums are in a similar zombified state, most got vored by "social media" and Discord (P.S.: if you are a dev or artist or whatever and use a Discord server as the main helpline/download source for a project you're doing, fuck you very much, you are the ACTUAL worst <3), which aren't indexed by search engines.
Then Reddit got Spez'd, so THAT avenue is fucked too.
Fedi isn't indexed by search engines either (AFAIK), so you can't do the old " reddit" trick replacing reddit with lemmy. It won't work.
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