number-1
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| posted on 19/7/19 at 05:54 PM |
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Is the internet broken?
Is it just me...or is finding the right information on the internet harder to find?
I seem to remember a few years go, you could type into google what you were after, and it was there at the top if the results. Now i feel like i waste
hours of my time reading stuff that isn't what i was looking for.
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chillis
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| posted on 19/7/19 at 06:16 PM |
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Years ago search engines displayed the closest matches to your search terms with just a little advertising bias, they looked at the website meta tags
and presented the results, now every time you search your past searches together with heaps of data collected and stored about you and you interests
and past internet use factor into the search algorythms plus seach engines dont look for meta tags anymore they just search though the whole website,
so you often get results based on words or phrases that turn up in obscure places.
So yes you can't just search for what you want any more
Never under estimate the ingenuity of an idiot!
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HowardB
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| posted on 19/7/19 at 06:36 PM |
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did you see the BBC news report on how Youtube algorithms are blamed for the rise of the Flat Earth believers,....
yes_really_flat_earth
Howard
Fisher Fury was 2000 Zetec - now a 1600 (it Lives again  and goes zoom)
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Benzine
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| posted on 19/7/19 at 07:45 PM |
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I find it useful to put key phrases in quotation marks (they then have to be included) and also to put a minus before words to exclude. Another thing
I often type at the end of a search is 'forum' to get real forum results instead of advertising /businesses.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 21/7/19 at 10:22 PM |
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Well is the Internet ever cleaned...? Its just filling up with garbage and so is youtube
As above flat earth or fake moon landing or 911 conspiracy or free energy vids seem to be on almost any search results
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nick205
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| posted on 22/7/19 at 08:10 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Well is the Internet ever cleaned...? Its just filling up with garbage and so is youtube
As above flat earth or fake moon landing or 911 conspiracy or free energy vids seem to be on almost any search results
I fear the same - the internet is a marvelous thing, but I doubt anyone does any real housekeeping and removes stuff that's either out of date,
pointless, incorrect, not an advert etc, etc.
I find internet searches take longer although I read "Benzine's" post with interest and shall give some of those tips a go when
searching.
Google Chrome web browser did me fine for years, but 6 months ago I switched to Mozilla Firefox on my laptop. That said I still use Google as my
search engine within my Firefox web browser.
[Edited on 22/7/19 by nick205]
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