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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 07:17:04 JST Eaton

   The failure of the Internet to deliver its promise is particularly noticeable when you hunt for repair manuals for a product from the 90s. Used to be, the information would either be there or not there, finable or unfindable.

   Now, there are hundreds of algorithmically generated sites claiming to have it just because it appeared in their search logs, generating potemkin village content traps with endless paging, broken-thumbnail named-like-the-file-you-want but actually-just-ebay-photos bullshit

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     bioluminescently (bioluminescently@disabled.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 09:44:39 JST bioluminescently

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     @eaton This is also why it's such a problem that independent websites are now falling so far down search engine rankings. When I was younger, if you had a problem with A Thing from a larger category of Things, you'd go to a website run by some Thing Enthusiast or group of them, and look your Thing up in the site's index or inbuilt search box. If it wasn't there, you'd post on the site's forum and another Thing Owner might help. But now... good luck even finding out that indie site exists.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 09:55:44 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • bioluminescently
     @bioluminescently @eaton Did you give https://search.marginalia.nu/ a try for this kind of use case?