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i am having a wMw moment. i'm trying to find the name/id of a particular x-files episode -- NxNN, etc. -- and i input sensibly relevant keywords into google. google demands i solve a captcha. then another. then another. in exchange for getting a result for my search query, i must perform a few rounds of slave lavor. then, the results are promptly shit. i get the episode i found text-searching my USB video pod; google has zero to offer. after all this brouhaha, they actually haven't indexed the answer to the question i was asking, and my time has been wasted. |
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You were probably looking for season 1, episode 2, "Deep Throat", an episode with a lot of men in it. |
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Yeah I hate that, it gets worse if you're using a VPN, and becomes almost impossible to solve if you have anti fingerprinting enabled. It punishes you for anonymity and rewards you for recognizability. |
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People assume captcha is for keeping robots out, but no, since everything is orwellian, it's secretly for keeping humans out. "Click on all the traffic lights", well what if there's 1/4th or 1/16th of a traffic light in one box, do I check that one, or just the ones 100% full of traffic lights? It's designed so they can say you're wrong no matter what you choose. So suddenly you're not allowed to use whatever pieces of DARPA net they don't want you to use. I don't know why they're giving you captchas to merely use google, I guess they're rolling that out, like only the naural link human botnet will be allowed to use google. I bet they can solve the captcha... even though they're robots. |
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it's actually put me off using google search -- which, come to think of it, has declined in quality over time. i've used duckduckgo for years; used their shortcuts (!g whatever) to hop over to google if DDG doesn't find the thing. they've never been as good as google, but they've been improving. there are other search engines readily available. sometimes i've even tried bing (!b whatever); hell has officially frozen over. in particular, bing's image search (!bi this is fine) is better than anyone else... except, of course, google. so, yes, they are still the best, but there are plenty of alternate routes that can deliver about 90% of what google for search. if they start doing it on google news or youtube, well, that would could suck. for youtube, my main usage is playing illegally uploaded music to listen to at work. i'd have to copy mp3s to my work computer, just like i did before youtube did it for me. google news... actually, anyone know something equivalent? that's not apple news, that i can just visit without signing up or whatever? i actually am annoyed at myself for relying so heavily on google news, but i've not found an alternative. i've tried to get more into the habit of going directly to the front page of various news sites rather than trusting google to filter it all for me |
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Yeah shocking (not) |
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"google news... actually, anyone know something equivalent?" These are much better than mainstream programming, not equivalent: |
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just now, i wanted to run an image search. i was about to type !gi, then i halted. they will just hit me with recaptcha. i hate that shit. i will close the tab instead of solve it. why even try in the first place then i typed !bi instead and bing image search found the thing promptly with no captcha. stat junkies that the googlies are, they won't notice until people move to competing services. i would encourage people to move to other services. |
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Google isn't a search engine |
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