The People Who Ruined the Internet

Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet by makeitdouble on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @08:54PM (#38107530)

I think Google Search "works" in the same way local newspapers "worked": they provide easy access to what most people want to know in their daily life, including gossip, the weather, the popular events and discussion topics ("melting houses")

If you're a German living in Morocco trying to understand Quebec's immigration policies in the original text you'll be fighting the search engine at every turn.

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Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet by mym1990 on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:21PM (#38108195)

This feels like a good take. I’ve recently been trying to find more information on caveats of Section 179 of the US tax code, and at almost every turn the consensus is to go to a professional(which is what I should do), but for some nagging off hand questions, I was hoping to find some meaningful discourse on it.

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Re:The People Who Ruined the Internet by pclmulqdq on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @10:44PM (#38108360)

Exactly. Google search is not a knowledge finder for power users, it's a content finder for normal people. The fact that it was good at finding knowledge for 10 years or so is entirely incidental to the goals of modern Google.

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