froey

Froey

@froey

I'll miss you cohost. 2022-2024.

living in the bible belt, early 30s
non-binary ⚧🏳️‍⚧️ transfemme
lesbian + ace
neurodivergent
indie visual novel dev + writer
I watch mostly anime
I also read a lot of gay books
budget audiophile
data hoarder
general geek
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zandravandra
@zandravandra
jessfromonline
@jessfromonline

I HATE THAT NOWHERE ON THE INTERNET HAS EXACT SEARCH ANYMORE

YOU CAN PUT ALL THE DOUBLE QUOTES YOU WANT AND IT STILL FUZZY MATCHES OR STRAIGHT UP DOES """SYNONYMS""". GOOGLE SUCKS NOW. EVERYTHING SUCKS ENSHITTIFICATION OF EVERYTHING.

Except Cohost. Thank god cohost has basic features like exact search, even if all you're searching is tags or people.

SomeEgrets
@SomeEgrets

OH MY GOD EXACTLY THIS

don't guess at what i wanted to see!
don't give me results you think i want instead!
just give me, literally, word for word the exact phrase i entered

if there are no results, just tell me that! returning no results is useful information! don't waste my time with unrelated things just so you can put links on a page!

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numberonebug
@numberonebug

The basic "here's how to use a database or search for information on the net" stuff I learned in elementary school is all useless nowadays and I feel as lost sometimes as if the internet just went offline

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kstarling
@kstarling

It's distressing. Something powerful and once ubiquitous has been thoroughly subverted. People not much younger than me (and I am not that old) don't even know it existed, and because the same names of websites and same apparent services still "exist", it's difficult to communicate what, precisely, has been lost.

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kstarling
@kstarling

Duckduckgo and startpage, the two most popular alternatives, still rely upon Google, Bing, and Yandex search to produce their own aggregate results. They are not complete search engines in their own right, it's more accurate to think of them as a layer of obfuscation to de-identify the user.

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doodlemancy
@doodlemancy

using any search tool now feels like one of those frustrating dreams where like, you just can't do something really easy, like put both legs in your pants or turn a doorknob. i used to be the queen of search terms! people would be like "how did you find that so fast" and i'd be like "key words babey"

and now it's all meaningless because everything is trying to guess what i want instead of using my keyword, and by guess what i want, i mean it's trying to guess how it can get me to make some sort of purchase. horrific. i want my internet back. :(

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HorsePondMine
@HorsePondMine

Today I was looking for pancake places on Yelp for work and the top results were a bakery that hand a donut someone said tasted like a pancake and an Indian restaurant because Yelp thought the word "butter" in "butter chicken" was close enough to pancake.

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airakose
@airakose

The ones I hate the most are when it Changes your search on you automatically. As in the text typed in the search box gets replaced

Like, no, dont auto-remove my quotes or add spaces. I know what I'm about

(I think it mostly does this if you switch search types, like from web to images)

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