Remember when Google was useful to find good stuff faster instead of driving what should be there ?
What changed the most? How good I am at formulating a query? What kind of information I'm looking for? How good Google is at curating the first page? How much information is available? Sure hope its not that my queries are more trivial, or that my preferences for answers favors simpler,easier ones...
Thankfully I still get lost on Wikipedia (and Youtube), in a kind of what-is-all-this-I-need-to-know-more learning spree.
- we became impatient if not lazy - google does a huge job at parsing complex queries - the content is more organized in itself (html semantic markup, meaningful css classes, etc etc)
The other day I tried a tails/tor and .. i cant recall.. ipfs probably. This network is bare, so bare I felt excited just like the 56K days. It quickly went bad because there's a huge % of bad / crazy content, but still I felt entering a more interesting territory as a visitor.
I know what you mean, but should we be thankful? Learning is stimulating, but are we just indulging in it with little or negative results because we are acquiring misinformation?
Suspect part of it is also me and knowing how to phrase searches. Bit that just does not work to the same level on DDG.