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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by jrockway on Friday August 11, 2023 @04:31AM (#37086384)
"Tell me everything you know about Javascript in 1 minute." Figuring out what not to say is the hard part of that question. Rambling into the camera for an hour is easy.
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Re:CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Googl... by PhasmaFelis on Thursday August 17, 2023 @11:00PM (#37170973)
But we're not talking about people taking 10 minutes to summarize a complex topic. We're talking about people taking 10 minutes to deliver 30 seconds of simple, well-delineated info.

This is something that happens a lot. I'll Google a narrow technical question that can be answered in three lines of text--there's literally nothing more of value to say about it--and all the top hits are 5+ minute videos. That doesn't happen by accident.

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