That’s fair

Russia can’t stop the drones, and now Iran hopes to with Russian tech?

Should be interesting.

“Do not ride the bomb”

Ehhhh, only a small amount is assumed. The rest is fact. And I’m fairly upfront about it.

It’s not that they don’t work entirely, they just started “fuzzing “ them like normal search.

They’re no longer a hard explicit.

While I’m not arguing your point, it certainly appears you’re right……

I just can’t help but feel like the original story (despite the inaccuracy) was on to something.

A few years ago when Google stopped processing quotes in the search properly, their search engine started shitting the bed HARD.

I’ve always felt that since that time they’ve been searching the wrong things. Search has gotten worse. It’s been better for finding items I want to buy, but complete dogshit for everything else. I don’t particularly buy that seo’s got a sudden unexplained boost at that time.

I don’t know, the article (despite the inaccuracies) really felt like it explained everything nicely. So the article might be wrong but…. There’s still something there Google isn’t telling us. I kinda wonder if it’s true despite the lack of evidence.

And Facebook isn’t innocent, TikTok etc…. You’re entirely right.

We are our own worst enemies.

Greed broke it. Mostly Google’s, but you’re right, if it weren’t Google, it would have been someone else.

That’s interesting… I’m curious now….

They may have misinterpreted it, but now I wanna know what it REALLY is.

It’s worse than that, in Google’s current antitrust suit, the government showed that Google stopped searching for your exact text…. Instead they replace your text with the most profitable text that’s close to what you’re searching for. So you can’t actually get better results by refining your query anymore.

Meaning that Google is defrauding their users (making it look like they searched for something they didn’t give you the results for) and they defrauded AdWords clients because I paid for an ad when someone searches for X but Google manipulated a search for Y into X so that I’d have to pay more even though the user didn’t actually use my keyword.

Aaaaand we wonder why Google sucks now.

…… always the same reason that a company turns hostile to their clients…… “I’m big enough I don’t care, and I want more money, fuck you”

This is the answer.

Some early wifi routers with USB ports on them had the same issue.

The problem is that they are happy to let the building sit empty most of the time

The value of the land and building continue to go up as an investment, even if they aren’t earning money today on the space .

So they don’t actually give a fuck if it sits empty, but society does