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Google: we need to have your personal information because that allows us to provide you with a better experience.

Me: Ok, please block these domains: "pinterest.com, w3schools.com, ..."

Google: Sorry, can't do that!

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Comedian Phil Wang has this joke about Netflix not recommending him his eponymous show the day it was released.

“I am Phil Wang! There’s nothing on Netflix more relevant to me than an hour of my own thoughts!”

https://podtail.com/en/podcast/netflix-is-a-daily-joke/phil-...

Sometimes they get it... though still with a 2% degree of uncertainty.

https://twitter.com/missdianemorgan/status/16718830928004464...

Pinterest is absolutely the worst; most of the time the linked page doesn't even have what I was looking for.

It has blown my mind for years the extent to which the Google Image Search team let Pinterest completely undermine the usefulness of their product, and they just kept on giving pinterest the top search result spots.

It's honestly more useless than the pages with a list of 1000 phone numbers that you get when you try to search for who an unknown number is.

Does anyone even work on Google Image Search? Is it run by a bunch of undercover Pinterest employees who infiltrated the team and pushed out the Googlers?

I'm honestly surprised by all the Pinterest hate because I don't think I've ever once, not a single time, left clicked a Google Image Search result. It's like drinking from the dead. You just don't do it.

>I don't think I've ever once, not a single time, left clicked a Google Image Search result. It's like drinking from the dead. You just don't do it.

You just don't do it according to whom? I would consider viewing the fullsize image to be core functionality for an image search, and it used to work just fine on GIS up until a few years ago.

> It's like drinking from the dead

I get that this must be something bad, but what does it mean, exactly? Drinking blood from a corpse?

Could be a link between Pinterest and Google investors

I’ve never been able to put into words my problem with the contrast between massive data aggregation and the degraded user experience of the web.

This completely frames it for me.

I was very hesitant to pay for a search engine at first, but Kagi has turned into the “stickiest” monthly subscription I have.

Isn't instagram the same?

Umm, according to the latest data, user choice is far less competitive than algorithms at stabilizing engagement metrics. Users' behavior speaks louder than what they believe in their little heads.

Or perhaps an amoral and unrestrained trillion-dollar paperclip-maximizer is, within certain paramaters, more effective at steering monkey-brains than said brains' resident consciousnesses are.

Can't tell if sarcasm or not.

He probably works on Google search or Pinterest.

I want least engagement with the search engine; it's a fail if I'm spending time just looking at search page and not the results.

The "in their little heads" gives it away.

my little head sometimes has me patch and spin up old pc's which should be a fairly meaningless and pointless exercise if it wasn't for those marvelous algorithms. Each box represents a mental time capsule worth of youtube suggestions. It attempts to lure the viewer into popular shit everyone else is watching but if you carefully avoid those thumbs and click only on the things seeded initially it will gradually show more and more of it. Things like small minded peasants farming their little farm by hand in languages completely unknown to me. The next box is seeded with "full movie" with an algorithm trying to carve out my taste. I also have A box full of little prepper people.

On my main pc it is 100% convinced I want to watch starcraft, technology, coding and fitness videos. Im not completely uninterested but the goal of the design seems to make my mind even smaller. It is constantly signaling that... how put it.... it thinks Im shallow as fuck.

Then again on the other box it is convinced I want to see nothing but old people planting rice. Its probably not good for its world view. If it was conscious it would be a cruel thing to do.

oh the thoughts going on in my small mind...

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