More like sponsored ”Product” for the first 8 results
Whenever I have to brave the Google abyss, I usually use Startpage. Obviously uBlock Origin but if I can avoid being bombarded by devious and distracting ads altogether, I’d rather that.
Source?
Youtube video “If Google Was A Guy”. I commented at the same time as the person above, nice.
True but I see this more as a critical thinking problem - which is pervasive in our society and worsened by the tech bubbles. People should want to seek out information that both argues for and against a topic.
The way our education systems work now, at least in the US, that method of thinking only begins around college and varies widely by academic pedigree.
Not critical thinking, but confirmation bias, yes.
If you google the right thing you’ll only get answers that agree with you.
This is why I only use Google Scholar and sort by number of references to that paper for fucking anything now. And even then, some garbage seems to slip through.
SEO has ruined indexers
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Series of AI generated answers
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Article from site you’ve never heard of that is filled with ads
Article from a local city you’ve never heard of
Article written by AI that contains 3 sentences and then ads
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Actual good source article for different topic
Reddit post about topic
Wikipedia
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Next page?
Thanks Googie
Make a habit of reading takes (from reputable / serious sources) that you think you’ll disagree with.
Even if it doesn’t change your mind, you will understand other people’s POV. This is very important for understanding your own stance better and finding flaws and uncertainties in it.
It also tends to humanise “the other side” (whoever that is for you), which makes it easier to have a constructive argument rather than meaningless fights.
Everyone these days is in a bubble. All of the things they believe in echo around inside the bubble. The other side is evil. We can’t listen to them. They have alternate facts. The politicians feed this to rile up the faithful to get more votes. Who cares if people start killing each other and storming the capital as long as they can gain power and keep it so they can get rich sucking up to their corporate overlords.
It’s a cult tactic. You get your subjects to alienate themselves away from outsiders so that they further rely on the cult.
Absolutely and it’s scary AF.
