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The same can said of Google, though with less entertainment value.

For instance, somewhere in the bowels of wordpress.com, there is an old old blog post that I wrote, on the topic my having recently lost quite a bit of weight. The blog and the post are still up. I called the post "On being somewhat less of a man".

Again, this blog post is live on the internet, right now. I won't provide the link, it's not a thing I want to promote.

And yet, I just went and googled "on being somewhat less of a man," and wouldn't you know it, Google cannot find a single result for that query, in quotes. So you won't find it either.

I doubt GPT-3 would find it either, but it's very clear that giant corporations who sell your attention for money are not going to reliably give you what you're looking for and send you - and your attention - on your merry way.

Google done? We can only hope.



Google probably blocked it as hate speech.


Lol yep


FWIW, Bing does find it.


For all their anticompetitive crap over the years, they keep emerging as the company that still sort of has a soul, in spite of having every reason to have long since abandoned it...


And duckduckgo




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