45 points

More like sponsored ”Product” for the first 8 results

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Whenever I have to brave the Google abyss, I usually use Startpage. Obviously uBlock Origin but if I can avoid being bombarded by devious and distracting ads altogether, I’d rather that.

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18 points

If you google the right thing you’ll only get answers that agree with you.

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This is why I only use Google Scholar and sort by number of references to that paper for fucking anything now. And even then, some garbage seems to slip through.

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7 points

Everyone these days is in a bubble. All of the things they believe in echo around inside the bubble. The other side is evil. We can’t listen to them. They have alternate facts. The politicians feed this to rile up the faithful to get more votes. Who cares if people start killing each other and storming the capital as long as they can gain power and keep it so they can get rich sucking up to their corporate overlords.

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4 points

It’s a cult tactic. You get your subjects to alienate themselves away from outsiders so that they further rely on the cult.

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4 points

Absolutely and it’s scary AF.

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21 points

True but I see this more as a critical thinking problem - which is pervasive in our society and worsened by the tech bubbles. People should want to seek out information that both argues for and against a topic.

The way our education systems work now, at least in the US, that method of thinking only begins around college and varies widely by academic pedigree.

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Not critical thinking, but confirmation bias, yes.

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9 points

Source?

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19 points

If Google was a Guy. It is hilarious.

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No, I want the 1000 results please. Not the video source, the link sources. All 1000 of em.

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Youtube video “If Google Was A Guy”. I commented at the same time as the person above, nice.

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