What Google Search Is Like Now
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN links it as a joke about the decline of Google search, as comedy that captures a widely shared frustration.
What it is
A Ryan George comedy sketch about the experience of using Google search in 2022, where results are full of ads, spam and Reddit and Amazon detours.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2022 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Cites renegat0x0 · 2023-03 · on “Link Archive – 03.2023 Update”
Do you track yourself? Do you check, what you are reading, and verify your own progress? Some time ago I started thinking about my problems with Google search, and was inspired by other project to write a program for myself. Throughout my life I have found many resources worthy of my time, but which I have lost, or forgotten about. I wanted to change that. I wanted to be able to look back. I have started my project in Sept of 2023. The core functionality is: to store, browse, and search for links. Additionally I added RSS sources as sources, so every hour I ping sources to check if there is anything new, and I expand my database. Does that replace Google search? Nope. On the other hand it ex
Cites renegat0x0 · 2023-03 · on “Link Archive – 03.2023 Update”
Fighting with formatting... Do you track yourself? Do you check, what you are reading, and verify your own progress? Some time ago I started thinking about my problems with Google search, and was inspired by other project to write a program for myself. Throughout my life I have found many resources worthy of my time, but which I have lost, or forgotten about. I wanted to change that. I wanted to be able to look back. I have started my project in Sept of 2023. The core functionality is: to store, browse, and search for links. Additionally I added RSS sources as sources, so every hour I ping sources to check if there is anything new, and I expand my database. Does that replace Google search? N