Gregory's Serverthe last 3 times i've seen a word and not known what the word means, and wanted to look it up quickly, i've typed it into a search engine (duckduckgo or google) and just got a load of results for a more popular word that isn't the word i looked for. even if i type define:word it still gets replaced with the more common word. i think for one of them i got a patronizing LLM response too. i swear the web has never felt this useless before
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literally in the hour and a half since i wrote this, i searched for something, the top couple of results were on tumblr.com, i clicked and started reading a blog-length post, and after about 2 minutes a blocking pop-up appeared telling me to make a tumblr account to read more. i used the ublock "element zapper" to remove and try to read more, but there was some js to stop me from scrolling or something, i couldn't be bothered to figure a way round it just to read a post, and closed the tab @jk |
someone will be like "you cant use Search Engines anymore, you have to go to the specific website where you want to look up stuff" but like. have you seen websites lately. they're all Apps now. they're all like React "Apps", where you have to Sign In and they have a bunch of Animations and banners and notifications and they track your location. and none of them have a good search function, still. and you go onto these websites to find out something, anything, and i can tell you, you won't