• superkret@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    In the late 90s and very early 00’s you could google yahoo song names and get a downloadable mp3 link as one of the first results.
    Cause search engines simply showed websites that contained your search terms, without filtering and AI algorithms.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Yep, too much of search engines today is people pushing SEO crap to rise in rankings and the businesses “protecting” users by delisting tons of sites that Google/Yahoo or who-the-fuck-ever has decided are “bad.” The number of times legitimate sites get swept up in that bullshit is too damn high.

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      Having no filtering certainly had its pros and cons, considering how much traumatizing shit google would throw at me as a child lol