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   emilygorcenski (emilygorcenski@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 08:18:41 JST emilygorcenski

   Why is search so broken just absolutely everywhere? It is 2023, and somehow search is considerably worse than in 2013 and arguably 2003. I’m not even talking like, google searches, but I’ll get to that in a sec. I’m talking the entire practice of making information findable

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 12:06:13 JST Cat Hicks

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     @emilygorcenski the degradation of findable information is a really underrated important piece of why it's been so hard for so many otherwise well intended people (like everyone in my family I've talked about this with) to find reliable health info during this pandemic. Everyone focuses on intentional misinformation but the capitalist architecture of bad content farming is probably an enormous effect.

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     emilygorcenski (emilygorcenski@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 12:06:14 JST emilygorcenski

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     And Google, don’t even get me started on google. It used to be known for its scarily accurate results. Now you have to sift through dozens of ads and the same stale, unrelated media content you always come across while trying to engineer your prompt

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     emilygorcenski (emilygorcenski@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 12:06:15 JST emilygorcenski

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     I was trying to search for a course to prep for the SC-900 exam on Udemy through my work account. I got dozens of results for things that weren’t the SC-900 exam even when I used the exact title for the course copied from another tab I had open

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     emilygorcenski (emilygorcenski@indieweb.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 12:06:16 JST emilygorcenski

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     Just today, I was on the Justice Department’s press release page. It gives you a keyword search, but returns the results in a random chronological order with no way to sort. Why??