#search engine result

[ratxbones]

brain damage

[localsnuny]

is this one too niche

[wincerind]

is anyone else tired

[cryoverkiltmilk]

In case you wanted a really simple illustration of how AI-generated results are poisoning the accuracy of search engines. (Also worth mentioning I didn't get this on DuckDuckGo, my default engine with Firefox. Not anywhere in the first page of results.)

[frmtheroombelow]

googling anything sleep token related is like playing minesweeper jesus crispity christ

[stealthnoodle]

I see there's a new post on AO3 on AI and data scraping, the contents of which I would describe as a real mixed bag, and the sheer number of comments on it is activating my self-preservation instincts too much for me to subject myself to reading through them. Instead I'm thinking about how much daylight there is between does or doesn't constitute a TOS violation and what does or doesn't violate community norms, and how AO3 finally rolled out that blocking and muting feature recently, and how I think it would be good, actually, if most people's immediate reaction to seeing a work that announces itself as being the product of generative AI was to mute the user who posted it.

That's my reaction, anyway!

[hylianengineer]

The stupid streaming service website has decided that I am forbidden from watching Ted Lasso, specifically. I have tried six times and every time there is some sort of critical error. Usually it just freezes but on one memorable occasion everything was in French and it wouldn't let me change the language preferences.

[squarerankinsigniasacramento]

SIGNAL BASED TIME TRAVEL: IF YOU HAVE MILITARY COMPUTERS THAT ENABLE YOU TO TRAVEL TO A FOREIGN PLANET AND DISGUISE YOURSELF AS A MEMBER OF THE CIVILIAN POPULATION, AN ILLEGAL SPY IN TERMS OF LAWS RELATED TO WAR, YOU CAN USE THOSE COMPUTERS TO SEARCH OUR COMPUTER NETWORK, WHICH WE CALL THE INTERNET. CAN YOU SAY IT WITH ME? IN TER NET. LET ME REALLY SLOW IT DOWN BECAUSE YOU SEEM TO BE HARD OF HEARING OR FUNCTIONALLY DEFICIENT IN TERMS OF COGNITION OR COMPREHENSION

In tur net

Iiiiiiiiiiiiin teeeeeeeer neeet

[chronomally]

My first reading for my class this semester is the research paper Segrey Brin and Larry Page published where they basically introduced the Google search engine to the world

[digilearnteach]

https://ext-6332835.livejournal.com/10466.html

[okayto]

I'm having to use Google Scholar for an assignment and my gosh it is such a PAIN to try and narrow down results or refine searches.

Don't get me wrong it's a good tool (I normally use it to see if I can find full text for something not in a library database, or for just a cursory search for a topic I'm not diving into), but it seems so annoying to refine results. I've known some people who used it as their primary research tool for grad school instead of ever opening a library database and I'm getting a headache just thinking about it.

[librawritesstuff]

Irrelevant search engine results

I’d pay for that.

*sigh* I should be so lucky

Awww good to hear

WHAT DID YOU DO NOW, SHAUN?!

Discount markdown? I’ll take a dozen!

Actor, director, photographer, musician?

Hello, I am a Nigerian princess with an investment opportunity…

He’s hot enough to set the fires himself

[unproduciblesmackdown]

haven't read through it start to finish word by word but this Available For Perusal pdf from 2021 seems to include the full script for bat boy the musical & a bunch of further details, scene by scene props lists, vocal ranges, sheet music! bat boy the musical our beloved....

(underwhelmingly [no title displayed] by virtue of its being a pdf but it's there! in 164 pages no less)

[onespacedown]

I will never cease to be annoyed by the fact that most websites do not use a tagging system similar to AO3's. I know, I know, AO3's tagging system is one of the wonders of the modern internet, and has me spoiled. But it makes it really hard to search bookstores and libraries for queer books. At best, they'll have "LGBTQ" tagged as its own genre, which is ridiculous and usually means you cannot specify literally anything else about the book, genre-wise, because the idea that a book can be, say, both fantasy and queer is apparently beyond the people who design these search engines. And god forbid if you want to find something more specific than that.