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 @dilmandila @damianogerli it's still there. Nobody uses it because it's useless on the modern web, but it's still there @SnoopJ @dilmandila @damianogerli @SnoopJ @dilmandila @damianogerli The button is there, but it doesn’t serve the same function! In fact, nobody *can* use it, because the button disappears as soon as you start typing into the search bar. You can only click it if the search bar is empty, and it takes you to a random Easter egg. (At least, I think that’s how it was last time I used Google, but it’s been a while.) @damianogerli@mastodon.social lololol... Aww damn, miss the old internet... I miss the hand crafted shitty fan websites hosted on strangers home servers... It was so fun and new  @damianogerli @BlackAzizAnansi Reward them with a visit and don’t ask how they could pay for all the hardware, bandwidth and engineering to bring all this for free to you.  @santiago I still use Google, but I also have my salt shaker beside me. Ploughing through the AI to find what I went to look for is a bit like #StorageWars these days.@damianogerli @BlackAzizAnansi  @damianogerli For that classic Google experience, I've been using Qwant. Which I'm sure is only a matter of time away from becoming Google but I'm going to enjoy it until then.  @miah @damianogerli I've been working in my office the last few hours, with one monitor showing a webserver access_log scrolling by. A bot identifying itself as Qwant seems to be dumber than a sack of rocks. There are three individual static webpages that it has requested a total of 13k times today. @roadskater @damianogerli I can't speak to their crawler, but their search results aren't super annoying =) Can you tell me more about this issue please?  @damianogerli *nods angrily* I may add this to my "Things I say a lot" list, but the two founders still have 51% of the voting shares in Google. Page and Brin could stop this at any time.        @damianogerli @EricLawton It’s the venture capitalist roadmap (Facebook, Google, Uber, etc etc etc): Start off being cheap/free @amart @damianogerli @EricLawton Corey Doctorow (@pluralistic) has coined “enshittification” for this lifecycle where benefits first flow from VC to consumer then VC to advertiser (or other counterparty) then from everyone back to VC by locking in users then making the service as bad as possible without pushing them away. @damianogerli yep, I used to be a big fan of #Google when they were still being hosted at Stanford and had a URL with a .edu TLD. Last week, I did a #GoogleSearch for the first time in many months, and didn't get any better results than #DuckDuckGo or #StartPage , so I still can't find that old article on using #Ansible inside a #Dockerfile in an unobtrusive way 😭 @mcrocker @damianogerli I remember learning about the new, cool search engine Google in a print copy of PC Magazine. Those were the days.   @damianogerli I had so much fun with Alta Vista. It almost made up for the stagnation of Gopher.  @damianogerli well, if you want that same experience: Consider http://frogfind.com by @ActionRetro ... It literally works with everything! @kkarhan @ActionRetro that's one very plain experience for sure, it might also work on a Commodore 64  @damianogerli anybody remember excite? It was between alta vista and Google and was great for tiny web @hutchinsonmini @noplasticshower @damianogerli I had links to Excite and Lycos on the website I created for a class in college. Those were the days!  @damianogerli If only we could once again be as blissfully naive and stupid as we were in 1999.       @damianogerli this definitely was one of the main selling points for Google back in the 90s. Stuff like Yahoo, Lycos, and Altavista was overloaded with stuff, so Google was a legitimate breath of fresh air. Trying to find a working search engine for a while was a bit like a lifestyle choice. @kyonshi and now... your lifestyle determines your deathstyle. (St. Anger quote feels appropriate)  @damianogerli It is amazing to see how the company that once revolutionized search engines to be the ones to completely destroy the experience. @caitp @damianogerli my memory is that google was a lot better — at least by the time i tried it in maybe 2000ish. altavista was good, but google quickly blew em out of the water  @damianogerli @damianogerli @aeva I miss early Google, it was a remarkably good search engine. Now it’s just a great example of #Enshittification  @damianogerli I had an internet friend with the old Google logo tattooed on her arm. One of if not the first to do it.    I'd argue that Google, even as it stands now, is *absolutely nowhere* near as bad as some of its competitors were in 1999 in terms of extraneous clutter. The words "portal litter" in the pic still send shivers down my spine. 😓 @damianogerli El mítico boton "voy a tener suerte". Si escribías lo que buscabas y pulsabas ahí entraba en en primer resultado automáticamente.  @damianogerli   @damianogerli Well, they were kind of a big deal, when Yahoo, Altavista and friends discovered they could fill the whole screen with ads. Google was a breath of fresh air at the time. @damianogerli i remember using basically this pitch for trying google to my altavista-using friends at high school! great time while it lasted… |
@damianogerli ahh memories.