the current state of search engines (music video)

you did not heed my warning and now we're all doomed

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[stackflow]

When I use quotes and still see results that say stuff like "does not include -term- : must include _term_ " or whatever bullshit it makes me want to scream.

[Lexthefazworker]

Google removing ”don’t be evil” from it’s code of conduct is solid evidence of where the company is going

[boredpreston]

It's completely broken now. Sometimes I can't even find the "images" tab because it changes places every search.

[stoptfg]

It's amazing how the internet is basically three companies now but is somehow less navigable. Consolidation is the ultimate evil.

[Star_]

I swear every time i want to as something even mildly specific

"Hey google what was invented in 1972?"


"In 2012 this random thing was *invented* by a guy...

...In *1972* he and his children met at a bar to talk about bussiness"

[_Forbidden]

Man, the "adding reddit at the end to see content from humans" line really hit the nail on the head for how shit google is now. I honestly didn't know i wasn't the only one who did that.

[thestreamingone]

This must have taken forever to animate. Kudos to you for sticking to it.

It's relatable and amazing.

[CloudBombr]

the irony is that adding "reddit" at the end no longer works in most cases because reddit subreddit communities are still privated for the strike

[imjust_a]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I keep telling my friends that Google doesn't show me things *I* want to see anymore, but rather things *it* wants me to see. I feel like they look at me like I'm some kind of conspiracy theorist! Resolving tech issues used to be so easy, but now I get the same 25 copy-pasted articles from their "preferred" websites, none of which tell me the answers I'm actually looking for!

[Greenpoptartover]

I had the same exact thoughts. I just started adding “reddit” to my searches recently as just an after thought to find real folks fixing problems & didn’t even realize in the moment that this is a good sign that google is busted.

[deejaykbo]

Last week savanah was just chilling in blender discord while making this vid. I gotta say most grounded and funny person had a blast chatting and making jokes keep it up dude !!

[mafiacat]

I was on board for this the whole way, but the "reddit" bit really hit me like a truck.
Recently I found out how much I relied on it, when the whole reddit strike happened, and suddenly google was a hundred times more annoying to use, with every site being bots or garbage

[Triplicata]

Oh god I thought this was an apology video for a second...

[themistermaniacal]

For awhile after the introduction of voice assistant googles search was actually incredible. like you could give it long winded esoteric conversational structured questions instead of normal search queries and actually get results. Like it got to a point where i was trying to break it and being intentionally obtuse or goofy and shit would still work. Then they lobotomized it and made it a yellow pages advertisement board where the whole first page is promoted results

[libraryphantom]

The fact that I was looking for a completely different video of yours, but this was the first result (and I couldn't find the video I actually wanted anywhere in the search results).... that is a type of poetic irony so heavy-handed that if someone had written it they would be ridiculed

[maxmustsleep]

super impressive!

i also absolutely hate youtube search nowadays. it only shows like 5 suggestions and afterwards it's dozens of other recommendations, trending / for you stuff and videos you've already watched. wtf youtube?

[Ett.Gammalt.Bergtroll]

All it takes to stop a bad girl with a ukulele is a good girl with a ukulele.

[TheGeekRex]

I'm so glad more and more people are talking about this. When I pointed this out to people years ago they acted like I was crazy. You really can't get any real, helpful information anymore without adding "Reddit" to the end, and that's massively hit or miss too.

I looked up "cowboy hat" for drawing reference once, and even with ad blockers enabled, there were four entire pages full of nothing but ads to buy cowboy hats before the first real result showed up (the Wikipedia article). It's like they secretly add "I want to buy ___" to every search you make.

[Rykoshet]

"yes i know about the quotes and the OR, it's all ass" is such a fucking vibe lol

[legendarygary]

Getting an ad for Google before this video was absolutely perfect.