What do you miss from the old internet?
i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.
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i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.
Googling something and being able to find answers to your questions that you can actually trust instead of being fed a mixture of AI generated articles giving garbage information, ads disguised as articles and pages blatantly trying to sell you something.
"Hello I'm dgriffith, a community support member here at (official support forum) and I'm here to help.
Have you tried formatting your hard drive and completely reinstalling your OS? That often helps when your icons are misaligned on the desktop.
If this post helps, please mark it as useful, thanks!"
Invariably, it's also marked as the accepted solution.
Every slightly unusual Windows issue that I research ends up at some Microsoft forum where this kind of post happens. Without fail.
I've genuinely seen a post where someone was looking for help because they had a problem with Windows and DISM /online /cleanup-image /restore health wouldn't run, it said command not found.
The marked answer from the 'Microsoft representative' was to run DISM /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
These are bad too. But I was talking about those pages that show up on web results that when you consult them you realize that they're just a bot-generated page that uses snippets of other pages it picked up on the internet, (badly) dressed up to look like an article written by someone. Often when you read through it you realize it repeats itself with conflicting information too.
Adding before:2023 to the query helps on older stuff. For new stuff i have no idea, all i get is a torrent of SEO AI worthless junk.
Going to try this, but can you even use operators like this on Google anymore in a any meaningful way?