My computer is quite capable and trying to go on fandom with javascript enabled just makes the entire thing shit itself. I have to force close the browser every time.
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I looked for "stove top camera array" to make fun of phones with 4x4 lens arrangements. Jesus fuck who thought that would look good?
Google just read "top" in the query and took it outta context to mean "recommended" listicles. Like and Share, bugman!
Google just read "top" in the query and took it outta context to mean "recommended" listicles. Like and Share, bugman!
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Between political engineering and advertisements, Google has gotten a lot worse very quickly.
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So in the birding world, if a person googles a bird's common name 95% of the time they're looking for that bird's All About Bird pages from Cornell Lab. More specifically, they're looking for the "sounds" page to listen to calls. Google use to know this, so naturally if you typed in "Common Grackle" or "Blackburnian Warbler" the first result was the page with all the calls and songs, followed by Wikipedia, followed by the Cornell page about the bird's life history, followed by various other hits. But around the time George Floyd got yeeted I noticed what looks like a concentrated effort to tank Cornell Lab and All About Birds. All of a sudden the page from the Audubon Field Guide- which might do the job depending on what you're looking at but is honestly isn't the best- is at the top and depending on the bird, Cornell might be very close to the bottom. Other bird people I've talked to have noticed this too, though strangely a few said they haven't experienced it at all. I suspect this might have something to do with Audubon being thoroughly woke and even hiring a rapist because he was black, while Cornell has been quietly trying to duck its head and has the audacity to *gasp* still call it McCown's Longspur.
No stone is too small to astroturf, even birds.
No stone is too small to astroturf, even birds.
Fandom recently "upgraded" the site so that comments don't show up unless you're using the latest browsers. Also pictures open to this stupid JavaScript gallery thing that only works in the latest browsers, so if you access the picture with JavaScript off, or in a new tab, or in an older browser, it just bounces back to the article. Why did they even do that anyway? It worked fine before.
(also it can be annoying how links to other fandom wikis about stuff like Marvel keep showing up)
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Clicking on the "Shopping" tab for Google often nets some dumb results for generic, graphic t-shirts that will replace a certain word with whatever you want.
I was looking for a used game, and then I find ads for t-shirts that say things like, "This Girl Loves F-Zero GX" and "It's a F-Zero GX Thing. You Wouldn't Understand".
I was looking for a used game, and then I find ads for t-shirts that say things like, "This Girl Loves F-Zero GX" and "It's a F-Zero GX Thing. You Wouldn't Understand".
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Oh for fuck's sake, I absolutely hate Googling something real quick on mobile and getting Fandom Wiki results, because the autoplay videos are a nightmare. At least on desktop I have the luxury of AdBlocker.
I mostly browse it on mobile since alt+tabbing is too much effort while playing turn based RPGs. Even with Brave, the videos pop up. Tried blocking Javascript and it made the stats a pain to look at and look for. I now despise Mass Effect because that damn blue alien keeps popping up when I want a demonic dong's stats. Fandom is cockblocking me.
I hate it when sites have messages asking you to disable ad blockers.
Even worse is when said message blocks the content (which can be bypassed by disabling JS).
Why do they think people use ad blockers in the first place?
(if I go on YT with uBlock it can show that 50-200+ things are blocked holy crap)
What I find hilarious that if I'm searching for a image for example that is oddly specific or anything along them lines. Unless I do it through Google Images, everything just comes back with random shit that sort of close to what I searched for. Duckduckgo, Bing, etc image searches are just so whack which is a real shame, as I try not to not use google as much as I can, as I'm sure they know plenty about me already.
yeah there's not much competition for (non-reverse) image search unfortunately. Yandex is actually a formidable opponent, but of course, it has it's own issues
No Google, I had no fucking idea there's a musician who calls herself "Snail Mail" nor I fucking care, I just wanted to send an old fashioned letter.
I tried to look up what happens to neutron stars as they age. All I could find was general info on neutron stars, and how neutron star collisions may be better than gravitational waves from black holes for detecting certain stuff. I imagine there's a lot of frustration looking up stuff in academic research now.
I guess that's better than 62 Stars Who Have Aged The Worst (You Won't Believe #5)
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I got invited to Brave's search engine this week. Haven't used it enough to warrant much from it apart from it's as good as DuckDuckGo.
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You should try searching only sources that specialize in the type of information you're looking for rather than letting some search engine feed you recommendations from the entire internet.
Took me literally 5 seconds to find a page that answers this question:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0220635/
You know they tailor search to your history right? Maybe you wanna tell us why you're looking up feet?
Bing-with-a-condom is still orders of magnitude better than Bing.
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