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90s internet was great. Full of annoying ads but there was a real meaning behind 'surfing the web'. You could just browse and browse, stumbling upon all kinds of random and cool pages.

Now the internet is top-heavy with a handful of sites dominating traffic. Most places are thought suppressing shit holes. Go to jewgle and search for anything. After the first 2-3 pages the results are useless and you rarely get past 10-15 pages.

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Do love me some TruthStream. I agree, the internet doesn't seem to have soul anymore.

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Joogle has dogshit search results now. It's just an indexer of popular social media posts and store pages.

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It's like the algorithms can't filter out all the wrong think so they are resorting to white listing things manually.

I'm surprised some Linux guy hasent created an open source web crawler you can run yourself and get unlisted results. Even if it takes a few days it would be worth it, and people could then link to good results on social media.

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I'm surprised some Linux guy hasent created an open source web crawler you can run yourself and get unlisted results.

I think Searx is probably the closest thing to that right now

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I'll take "Who is In-Q-Tel?" FOR $800, Alex

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Even my mom says Google sucks now, and she only does simple searches.

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The only reason i ever started to use them was they auto placed the cursor in the search field. Now look at them. Imagine if lycos or netscape did something so simple?

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Shamefully, I remember recommending Google to people over AskJeeves

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One thing I've learned from growing up with the internet is that eventually just about all websites sellout. Facebook gave the same promise that it would never have ads on its site. And soon as it went public on the stock market, the integrity of that site went down the shitter.

And Google's slogan was "Don't Be Evil" (or something similar).

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Everything gets ruined by corporate faggots and kike parasites.

Any person and any principle they claim to hold sacred has a price.

In the case of Faceberg, the plan was always to make it into a giant honeypot for collecting info that people voluntarily share.

If it's free, you are the product.

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How do we make our own search engine?

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We used to have a self-hosted searx instance, but with Poal growing, we focused on the video hosting instead.

https://poal.co/s/Poalogo/58270

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Lol is this real? It's true regardless...

Feel like an old man for remembering how clean and simple it was but I can't remember seeing this.

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is this real?

It is, I remember back in pre-2000 when joogle was bragging about not being evil and sheeeit.

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It was good times, I had optimism for humanity back then.

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I 'member when was called

Used to send me CD's in the mail, too

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Then they banned plastic straws.

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Sheeeeeeeit we wuz nawt ebil kang n shiet nyiggah

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