• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    15 hours ago

    Sometimes I add something like “blog” before:2019 to my searches because I want “old” google and not their shiny newer profoundly shitty search. Plus I tend to really like blog results. Wwithout before:2019 google is incredibly insistent in “helping” me by mostly (or entirely) ignoring the word “blog” even if it’s in double quotes.

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        8 hours ago

        Google calls such stuff advanced operators. They used to be fantastic tools. But the problem now is that google occasionally, intentionally breaks some of them to be “helpful”. And you can’t disable such help.

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      15 hours ago

      Letting corporations control how we access information was always a mistake. Historians will curse us, and the evidence will be a hole.

      There must be consequences for the fuckers who did this. They have names and addresses.