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If you can't find the right information from the internet then skill issue
Sadly, I gotta disagree. Searching used to be easier, back when search engines prioritized finding useful information. Now they are vehicles for delivering ads and collecting user data.
Google of the early-2000s era was an entirely different site. I used to be able to find almost anything I needed to search for. As far as I’ve seen, there is nothing comparable to that early-Google out there today. (Though I’d be ecstatic to be proven wrong on that!)
Yeah I would agree with the other person 20 years ago. If you couldn't find it online it probably didn't exist
Said like someone that only looks at the "sponsored" results and thinks search doesn't work. Exercise that scroll finger some more
Searx is my way to go when i need to do research, it's a search engine, that takes results from others
Unfortunately Google is still the king of search engines. Try searching for most technical facts or most common issues or anything else on most search engines and you really can't find it. You might find some things but you won't find the amount of information you can find on Google. The problem with the internet nowadays is not that searching has gotten worse, it's that there is such a plethora of information out there that you have to have the right skill set to be able to go through it. The reason you were able to find everything in the olden days was that there was so few websites out there that it was very very simple to search all of them. And the counterpoint to saying that there is a plethora of misinformation now when you're looking at your phone simply means that you're visiting websites and looking at sources that have a plethora of misinformation. It is very very simple to cross reference and find the correct information pretty much anywhere.
Just disable AI slop from you search engine or stop using google and such, learn how to make un-biased searches, start to understand how to spot a fake information and start questioning what you read
I never said that it's a justification lol, anyway, biased search is when you search something like "Is X better than Y" or something like this, which is wrong to do because it's biased and so it will give biased results too
Example:
If i search "is tomato more healty than potatoes?" Instead of "The pros and cons of eating tomatoes and potatoes" i will get biased results that will mostly say "you should eat only tomatos!!!"
This is called a bias query because it will give you biased results
You say this as though AI is only poisoning search tools.
What do you mean? Just use alternatives like Searx or remove AI from duckduckgo, for results just read, AIs are easy to spot
Right, those are all search tools.
All the people replying to you arguing that you can't trust the internet because of AI and Algorithims... this too is a skill issue. Stop going to Google or MSN or Yahoo There are search engines that don't use algorithms or AI, and others that don't use algorithms and you can turn off the AI.
It also helps to understand WHERE you are getting your information from and use watchdog sites that can tell you if a site is a reputable source or not. Heading over to I'Mright.com isn't going to help you unless you're looking for confirmation bias.
Exactly!
Who defines the "right information"? The algorithms? The information conforms to what your peer group is saying is the "right information"? It's consistent with what government agencies are saying?
We really aren't any better off than just believing what aunt Marge said since you can find the exact same thing she said and things the exact opposite and which one you believe is just down to what feels right. It's just believing what aunt Marge said with more steps.