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Search engines don't work anymore, because they don't use keywords anymore. This is probably because SEO was moving dollars around incorrectly and needed to be stopped, and also an insistence among tech bros that AI can predict exactly what you want. Things that were useful but don't work anymore include: *Using parenthesis to search for an exact phrase. *Using a plus sign to insist that results must include that exact word. *Typing more than a single word and expecting all of those words to be included in the results. *Using a parody term that appears to be a misspelling, for example "shart week". If I type in "shart week", don't assume I misspelled anything, just give me those results. But that doesn't work anymore for at least two of the above reasons. I'm not sure when exactly the change occurred but it feels like sometime within the last five years. It just sucks because pretty much any obscured content is impossible to find if you don't already have it bookmarked.
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"shart week" +truckstop
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May 24, 2023 02:09
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you use quotes to search for an exact phrase DUMBASS
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May 24, 2023 02:12
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this is a trick for shart week t-shirt sales and you almost got me youson of a bitch
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May 24, 2023 02:26
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  Looks fine to me OP. 
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May 24, 2023 02:27
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I hate the OP and this thread but they are correct that search engines are extremely bad now.
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May 24, 2023 02:27
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Funky See Funky Do posted:
He was probably putting it in parentheses
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May 24, 2023 02:30
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I hate the OP and this thread but they are correct that search engines are extremely bad now. Lol I will never understand why you get given so much loving leeway to post like this
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May 24, 2023 02:30
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I'll concur that Google seems to be doing scummy and annoying things that they never would've done in years past, like on mobile the results page will extend beyond your actual results and will start displaying "results" for things you didn't actually search for and hoping you won't notice.
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May 24, 2023 02:32
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MrQwerty posted:Lol I will never understand why you get given so much loving leeway to post like this
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May 24, 2023 02:34
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the entire internet got sketchy in the last decade. Get over it.
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May 24, 2023 02:35
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my job is putting ads on Google and it's funny that everything I learned when I started re: keywords is wrong now
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May 24, 2023 02:38
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"keyword," as if that isn't an old person term
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May 24, 2023 02:40
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yeah it's a real mess and a bunch of tech bros are probably going to get murdered by schizophrenic lunatics and they will have bought it upon themselves lol
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May 24, 2023 02:41
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"Big boobies" still works, right? Right??? E: AOL Keyword: BALLS was not what I thought it would be 
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May 24, 2023 02:44
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Actually Infoseek still works well op
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OP, you and your Boolean demands put you in the less than one percent club—as in, less than one percent of users ever knew how to do that. Congratulations on your elite status! Sadly, you are so elite that you are vastly outnumbered by users who are confused and enraged when they copy/paste something in the Google box and it comes back all weird—and, guess what? Those users refuse to learn any better. They will always be confused and enraged each and every time. So you take away the feature that barely anyone knows exists and solve a UX problem for a significant portion of your other users and you get a raise because your number goes up. This is considered an amazing UX practice. That’s why everyone does it now. Because it’s the best.
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May 24, 2023 02:50
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Today I tried searching on Google for something and it refused to give me any actual listings of website URLs -- just images. The internet is completely unusable garbage these days.
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May 24, 2023 02:53
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im on youtube watching shorts and just a little mousewheel action takes me to the next vid and I cant get back because it bugs out and I cant get my playback spot back but yeh search engines, I sometimes get self conscious sending out those rapid fire searches that happen when you start typing now
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May 24, 2023 02:57
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it's time to go back to webrings
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May 24, 2023 03:05
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There Bias Two posted:Today I tried searching on Google for something and it refused to give me any actual listings of website URLs -- just images. Click the button that says "all" near the top of your screen
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May 24, 2023 03:14
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MrQwerty posted:Lol I will never understand why you get given so much loving leeway to post like this Oh, I've got it coming, it's fine. SidneyIsTheKiller posted:He was probably putting it in parentheses Leaving it as a monument to my idiocy.
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May 24, 2023 04:14
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I see a little Duncan in there?
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May 24, 2023 04:27
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Keyword: Shitbox
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May 24, 2023 04:40
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Lol at all the grandparents that can't figure out how this confounded "Google" thing works it's too hard if you ask me!!
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Nooner posted:Lol at all the grandparents that can't figure out how this confounded "Google" thing works it's too hard if you ask me!! can you help me?
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May 24, 2023 04:45
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AOL Keyword: gape
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Machai posted:Click the button that says "all" near the top of your screen same thing happened to me a week or two ago. there was no all button anymore. Manky Tungeon posted:it's time to go back to webrings been saying this. there's so few websites that aren't ai generated garbage that it's needed
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May 24, 2023 04:59
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kntfkr posted:AOL Keyword: gape I am fairly sure I did that back in 1998
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May 24, 2023 05:10
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My friend was telling me about the MAID program and I mentioned Sharlotte Hydorn. Went to find an article on her and Google ignored all my keywords to give me nothing but articles about MAID and to suggest I call the suicide hotline.
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sesh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwDDIexyNw8
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Toxic Mental posted:you use quotes to search for an exact phrase DUMBASS  Also: Works with Google search but not many other search engines afaik. Doesn't work in DuckDuckGo.
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May 24, 2023 05:54
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Hey Google, show me the goatse guy's rear end in a top hat
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May 24, 2023 05:56
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Das Boo posted:My friend was telling me about the MAID program and I mentioned Sharlotte Hydorn. Went to find an article on her and Google ignored all my keywords to give me nothing but articles about MAID and to suggest I call the suicide hotline. I would have told her about the MAD program and the best keyword ever Alfred E Newman
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May 24, 2023 05:58
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I would have told her about the MAD program and the best keyword ever Neuman dipshit
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May 24, 2023 06:01
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erosion posted:Neuman Neuman. I gently caress everything up
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:Neuman. It's ok, you're doing a good job
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I am fairly sure I did that back in 1998 That explains a lot
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erosion posted:It's ok, you're doing a good job at least you know I'm trying
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I'm unable to extract the EXIF data from my favorite youtube videos, my 1st amendment rights are being violated
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