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by hiptobecubic 1630 days ago
Surely you don't think that it's Google's responsibility to return any random bullshit that happens to be on the internet? I go there to figure something out. I don't care that some conspiracy theorists believe the earth is flat, if I search for "theory of gravity" I don't want any flat earth garbage.
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> Surely you don't think that it's Google's responsibility to return any random bullshit that happens to be on the internet?

Uh, yes? It's an internet search engine, it's literally its job.

It's really not. Its job is to sort the internet. Just returning whatever low-value crap is not useful.
Part of being able to distinguish the garbage in life is being able to see all sides presented and being smart enough to know what is correct.

Sorry if you need Google to help you with this. You'll probably see 5 pages of ads, old sites, and spam before you see the wacky conspiracy stuff like flat earth and Russiagate.

Really? You want to do some research on, e.g. covid and you think it's best to just uniformly sample every idiot opinion across the internet?
You get neither you get ads for gravity weights and gravity named brands followed by a wiki entry in gravity and tons of amazon links for gravity games.