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Remember when "Google Fu" was a thing?

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    RE: https://xoxo.zone/@ilovecomputers/116275772384259836

    Remember when "Google Fu" was a thing? Google perfected internet search, and once every competitor had been driven out of the game, they very intentionally killed internet search, and it has never recovered.

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      RE: https://xoxo.zone/@ilovecomputers/116275772384259836

      Remember when "Google Fu" was a thing? Google perfected internet search, and once every competitor had been driven out of the game, they very intentionally killed internet search, and it has never recovered.

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      @RachelThornSub It's honestly where a bunch of my "wizardly" powers come from - remembering how to search for things in the days before Google.

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        RE: https://xoxo.zone/@ilovecomputers/116275772384259836

        Remember when "Google Fu" was a thing? Google perfected internet search, and once every competitor had been driven out of the game, they very intentionally killed internet search, and it has never recovered.

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        @RachelThornSub

        #AltaVista actually worked.

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          RE: https://xoxo.zone/@ilovecomputers/116275772384259836

          Remember when "Google Fu" was a thing? Google perfected internet search, and once every competitor had been driven out of the game, they very intentionally killed internet search, and it has never recovered.

          boydstephensmithjr@hachyderm.ioB This user is from outside of this forum
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          @RachelThornSub I use ddg now, but I still think there's a bit of "Google-Fu" that I have and benefit from that some of my family and community don't have.

          Your thesis is undeniable tho. Search has enshittified, and it sucks.

          I wonder if there's some way to decentralize the original PageRank and how legal that would be.

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            RE: https://xoxo.zone/@ilovecomputers/116275772384259836

            Remember when "Google Fu" was a thing? Google perfected internet search, and once every competitor had been driven out of the game, they very intentionally killed internet search, and it has never recovered.

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            @RachelThornSub I can sometimes makethings happen with DuckDuckGo (like finding the right lyrics to a song that somebody w/ 2 subscribers had put on YouTube in 2020).

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              RE: https://xoxo.zone/@ilovecomputers/116275772384259836

              Remember when "Google Fu" was a thing? Google perfected internet search, and once every competitor had been driven out of the game, they very intentionally killed internet search, and it has never recovered.

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              @RachelThornSub Only a few of us remember those days... 🧓 (Or that's what it seems like anyway.)

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