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Ah yes, just consult the misinformation vortex anytime you need the answer to anything.
It amazes me that you all loathe AI search but will happily deal with regular search which always has given you garbage. AI search just makes it easier to start checking sources and going through larger amounts of material.
Regular search wasn't always garbage. We used to be able to use symbols to refine our searches and would be able to find exactly what we are looking for within seconds. Random part number for a specific model? Random debug issue? Fuckin weird-ass error on the software?
Now days you can search for a string which you fuckin know exists and it's like, "there's nothing on the web for that." absolute fuckin lies. The shit is still indexed somewhere.
It's crazy how Google got so much worse. More ads, worse results, and the text copy is even buggy now
That's a feature, not a bug. The goal is to push you to use ai