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- on ‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12h ago
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on Lots to choose from! in c/femcelmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 Aug 2026
Don’t @ me like that, homie. ;.;
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on Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
It is “backed up”, but not by the government.
The folks that maintain archives are ready to release them to a future, competent administration.
Google was really awesome at a point in time. You could throw it the most obscure query using natural language with in-text Boolean operators and the number one result would direct you to an html-only geocities page that hadn’t been updated since 1999 with the EXACT answer you needed and citations from 3-4 actual, physical books to back up that answer. IMHO, those were peak times for the internet as an information resource; approximately 1998-2008.
Now every page just seems to be a bloated, poorly-coded monument to engagement baiting, subscription model services, and ad revenue generation. It’s genuinely sad to have watched the degradation over the years…