Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
by ohthehugemanate on Thursday July 29, 2021 @06:06AM
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I love this game. Great idea!
Side note: both duckduckgo and google gave me correct results for that specific search. Turns out "reservoir cats" is a movie and a simpsons episode.
Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
by dalmo3 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:35AM
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Although I'm familiar with your point, I literally just searched for the term you mentioned, navigated all the way to page 6 and every single result was specifically for Reservoir Cats proper, none of them even mentioned Reservoir Dogs in the title, only in the description for some of them.
Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
by bryanrasmussen on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:54AM
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the same, maybe someone at google read this and fixed it reaaalllly quick.
If I search for Palp fiction it shows me pulp fiction results but asks if I really meant Palp fiction, if I say yeah I really meant that it shows me Palp fiction with a message did you really mean pulp fiction.
on edit: some of the palp fiction is headline palp friction.
Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
by leucineleprec0n on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:58PM
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I’ve noticed this but only recently began to feel like the behavior was different, I wonder how strong the correction is now relative to the past
Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
by raytracer on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:08AM
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Reservoir Cats is actually a movie! I feel like I've slipped into an alternative time stream.
Google search 'reservoir cats' and it will completely ignore what you actually search for in favor of the mainstream result. The effect is basically that you can't sesrch for 'reservoir cats'!
Even putting something opposite or unrelated to the highly mainstream result will have no effect.
Its completely entirely ridiculous and makes the search engine seem like a facade.