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The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 6 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] li10@feddit.uk 130 points 6 months ago (6 children)

The results aren’t easy when they’re useless tho.

Particularly an issue when you’re googling an obscure software issue, you just get spammed with the same copy/paste “troubleshooting” steps. Which usually boil down to “reinstall this completely unrelated driver”.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 15 points 6 months ago

…along with everything else. After all, if you reinstall everything from scratch the problem will maybe go away or you get too tired to go on

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