[ClumsyPilot]

This expectation that everything can be automatically done by algoryths is the core if the problem. its like a form of insanity, it doesn't work but we keep trying.

Why are top 10 results for 'apply for visa to Moldova' a scam? Is it really impossible to give government officials an ability to provide input for official business, like applying for a passport?

Could you not hire like 2 people in each makor country to keep track of websites for important government services?

Could you not take community input like reddit does, or wikipedia?

seriously sometimes i think the people making the smartest algorythms are tge ones with biggest tonnel vision, and are incapable of examining alternative solutions.

[salawat]

...It isn't the algorithm that's the problem. It's people invested in becoming a value extracting diversion for an answer that'll be around.

Lets take your problem. Applying for a visa for Moldova. Let's say that there's a site hosted at visa.moldova.gov with a form to apply.

Eventually, someone is going to integrate a bunch of data broker services to auto-fill that form, then data broker to other tourism related businesses trying to compete to plan your stay.

It is very much in their interest to ensure that no one sees visa.moldova.gov, but instead sees one of their onboarding funnels.

Thus the well around a well known onboarding point to a critical government service is poisoned.