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BidenRocks

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12. There are many things a Google search will not find.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2026, 09:21 PM

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When I go (reluctantly) to AI, there it is.

I have been looking at memories from the 70s.
What was that group I liked in Memphis in 1973, and what happened to them. The Hot Air Balloon in Overton Square.
(The We Two. Gene and Lyle)
Now I know the rest of the story.

Was it worth the electricity and water to do this? Hell no!

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Google Search as you know it is over [View all] highplainsdem Tuesday OP

Everything you said, plus ai heats up our planet and uses up our water questionseverything Tuesday #1

Crap... Bayard Tuesday #2

I've been using Startpage for a couple years. Make7 Tuesday #8

Well I've been looking for ways to ditch Google for a long time. 1WorldHope Tuesday #10

Google, as we knew it, was over and changed quite a while ago, before AI. RockRaven Tuesday #3

Same here. It's been over for me for years now mdbl Tuesday #4

Brave and DuckDuckGo are much more secure than Google. summer_in_TX Tuesday #5

Will Bunch: Soon there'll be no new information to train AI on anything that happened after 2026 highplainsdem Tuesday #6

The usual acronym ETTD should be edited slightlv Tuesday #7

Remember the "World Wide Web"? I think back to the 1990s as the days of the Wild West FakeNoose 21 hrs ago #19

I've gotten in the habit of using the verb 'google' instead of 'search'. I'm trying to break out of that. Since I'm not eppur_se_muova Tuesday #9

Fuck all AI until/unless that shit is HEAVILY regulated...something that sure as hell isn't happening under fascism. Karasu Tuesday #11

There are many things a Google search will not find. BidenRocks Tuesday #12

Google anything ... any search term ... then type "-AI" after the term FakeNoose Tuesday #13

I do that (when I remember) but you still get AI content too. BlueSpot Tuesday #14

+1 dalton99a Yesterday #16

So basically the era of links is over Diraven Yesterday #15

It was fun while it lasted. hunter Yesterday #17

Cory Doctrow made a word for this:"enshitification". nt Shipwack Yesterday #18