JESUS CHRIST I can't take it any more

WHY is EVERY fucking search process on the ENTIRE FUCKING WEB grossly and irreparably BROKEN?????

LinkedIn? broken
Google? broken
Glassdoor, Indeed? broken
Every fucking jobsearch site? broken

They all fail the simplest tests (if I restrict a search, does it return fewer results? NO) and lack the most obvious functions (can I use Boolean? can I subtract searches? can I exclude sources or locations? NO, NO, NO).

WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE LIKE THIS?

AAAAAAAAAAA

@f4grx @sennoma no no no, search was already broken before the AI craze. Fifteen years ago I could find most things on the internet with boolean searches. But not five years ago. Boolean searching has been systematically dismantled because accurate, direct search doesn't sell ads, and all search engines are fundamentally ad platforms.

@raffitz @sennoma now I want to build some web index in python, that would work like the original google.

@f4grx @sennoma Issue is that the internet scaled a lot. Google still has the resources to index it all in a boolean searchable way, but I don't know how viable it is to make a garage search engine.

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@raffitz @f4grx @sennoma Honestly I feel like it would be entirely possible if you found a reliable way to just filter all the SEO mills (LLM-generated or otherwise) from your index entirely, because those seem to be responsible for a very large chunk of that scale

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