If you don’t know what you’re doing, the internet is already like that. The amount of people who have tried googling shit when I ask them a question and they regurgitate marketing spiel is unreal.
what I find annoying is when I google a word I want a definition for and a company with that name dominates the results. It’s like when singers make songs out of phrases and ruin the phrase for everyone. Get all this capitalism out of my language I have to live in this language
what I find annoying is when I google a word I want a definition for and a company with that name dominates the results.
Almost any word I bother to look up is first and foremost some bullshit bazinga techbro startup according to browser searches. I have to insist “dictionary” as part of the search to have a chance of not getting a bunch of startup shit peddled at me instead.
I think that shit should be illegal. Like they should start arresting Google execs until they finally fix it so that googling a word without context doesn’t assault you with information about some goddamn corporation using that word as their name
I don’t know how I became information literate and I don’t know how to convey to other people how shallow their information gathering process is. So many people don’t realize that the first 4+ results on every search are just ads and I frequently see them click uncritically. So many can’t discern an internet equivalent of an infomercial from a real source. People OBVIOUSLY can’t see when something right in front of them is naked propaganda just so long as it’s labeled with the correct brand.
Like, I trained myself reflexively to not even look at ads, so now it’s almost second nature to me, but I feel like that started as an instinctual yet active effort of small rebellion? I’ve no idea how to pass that instinct along
If you don’t know what you’re doing, the internet is already like that. The amount of people who have tried googling shit when I ask them a question and they regurgitate marketing spiel is unreal.
what I find annoying is when I google a word I want a definition for and a company with that name dominates the results. It’s like when singers make songs out of phrases and ruin the phrase for everyone. Get all this capitalism out of my language I have to live in this language
Almost any word I bother to look up is first and foremost some bullshit bazinga techbro startup according to browser searches. I have to insist “dictionary” as part of the search to have a chance of not getting a bunch of startup shit peddled at me instead.
yeah it’s always some stupid bullshit thing
I think that shit should be illegal. Like they should start arresting Google execs until they finally fix it so that googling a word without context doesn’t assault you with information about some goddamn corporation using that word as their name
I’d like that so much.
You can shorten that to “define WORD”
for me what kills me is that searching for ‘home’ used to always go to a map that showed me how to get home, now? and ad for home depot, every time.
I don’t know how I became information literate and I don’t know how to convey to other people how shallow their information gathering process is. So many people don’t realize that the first 4+ results on every search are just ads and I frequently see them click uncritically. So many can’t discern an internet equivalent of an infomercial from a real source. People OBVIOUSLY can’t see when something right in front of them is naked propaganda just so long as it’s labeled with the correct brand.
Like, I trained myself reflexively to not even look at ads, so now it’s almost second nature to me, but I feel like that started as an instinctual yet active effort of small rebellion? I’ve no idea how to pass that instinct along
Never landed much with my 2 year associates in a scientific field, but it did teach me to research better as well as smell bullshit from a mile away.