Setting aside for a moment the fact that virtually no one online has noticed that essentially every web search engine is now a search engine illusion (a facade - a 'Potemkin village'), we have a second issue at hand:
When these search engine illusions become the topic of discussion, virtually no one has any clue how powerful the search engines were before the illusions arrived, or how they were used.
This shouldn't be possible absent the killing-off of just about everybody who was using the Internet between 1998 and 2020.
I have no explanation for it.
There's some kind of Internet (maybe even reality) manipulation taking place that shouldn't be possible.
Well... back when those who were smart enough, autodidactic and curious - you could spend DAYS on just ONE search inquiry and endless tabs/windows if you built your own box with as much RAM as possible...
There's a KEY point to remember circa 1995-2005, that unless you were tech saavy and you were either an IT pro or in college - you probably didn't have a PC AND even less had Internet access.
Most people had ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS owning a computer OR being online. Just like most didn't NEED a cell phone. In fact VERY FEW in comparison to the general population had both.
There was a PERISHABLE TIME PERIOD when information and digitized things were starting to populate the web with useful (even obscure) information... and searching for anything, no matter how obscure, was possible...
Then as schmucky public filed in and "every asshole gets a website" started, then all that dot com bs started and advertising pollution started happening in earnest...Then the search started becoming compromised...No more "67,456,321 results" - just some stupid blue asshole with a fishing rod (this is more recent)
The thrill of online commerce shadowed the need to search for any "information" what are you nuts? Information? No! We want RARE trinkets! Cheap!!! And that's most likely WHY retards that NEVER should have had access to the web, mob steered the fate of the search engine - seeking cheap Chinese trinkets and slop. You wanna sell slop? Great! You want to educate? Pfft ...
But remember how there were all those Geocities pages with TONS of esoteric information people kicked up? And ALL of those Photobucket pics across the web? Then SUDDENLY - both just shut down and literally RUINED years of collective human information covering nearly every subject imaginable.
And now? It's all shit. A dystopian diet Coke fag net where faceplace took the role of "easy posting" and every asshole nobody wants having a microphone has a voice... and god forbid a podcast...sigh...
Anyway... YEAH OP we know... It's a real dogpile...
No kidding. In the past every town and village had their own village idiot and town nutter that everyone that lived there knew about. But outside their own town or village, not so much. Now however, everyone's village idiot has a global platform.
This isn't correct and I suspect that, assuming you're over 40, if you think on it a bit you'll recall that it's not correct.
There was no organic steering of anything in this particular case.
We're seeing some entity with enormous power putting a hard swift kibosh on the taxcattle's ability to access unfiltered knowledge. The crippled fake search engines are helping to move everyone to AI for information. Once that move is complete, the censorship, deception and lies we already see present in Grok and ChatGPT (especially ChatGPT) will increase a thousand fold.
Other than those two things, I love your comment.
For those reading who might not quite grasp what TaQo means when he says "no matter how obscure": Even as recently as 2012, you could submit a query of 16 random characters in a row (eg "h29ql4b4fpx8ee2") and you would often get a result for a page that contained that exact string of characters. That's simply the reality of what you get when billions of people spend years adding trillions of things (sometimes very large things like entire databases built offline over decades) to the Internet.
It's pretty correct for adults in my region...Your mileage may vary.
Children, who didn't have fully developed brains at that time, were excluded.