The Toilet Theory of the Internet
www.theatlantic.com
Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster.
  • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The results aren’t easy when they’re useless tho.

    Particularly an issue when you’re googling an obscure software issue, you just get spammed with the same copy/paste “troubleshooting” steps. Which usually boil down to “reinstall this completely unrelated driver”.

    • lad@programming.devEnglish
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      5 months ago

      …along with everything else. After all, if you reinstall everything from scratch the problem will maybe go away or you get too tired to go on

    • Lojcs@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months ago

      One of the biggest advantages of using Linux over windows is the lack of those endless seo sites while troubleshooting.