Google is Terrifying!

nivek

As Above So Below
Yahoo just seems to be utilizing Bing's search engine. Maybe Bing licensed it to them.

I recently noticed that too, what did Yahoo use before?...Was it something called Alstavista or was that some other stand alone search engine?...

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nivek

As Above So Below

Censorship! Today I have received a Search Engine Removal notice from Google for a post about Maxwell and Disney – One means hundreds? Probably

They are slamming StrangeSounds at the beginning of each year. Last year, they removed all of my ads. This year they have censored one of my post about Maxwell and Disney. But if they tell me about one, they are probably censoring hundreds others. StrangeSounds is now banned from search results? I hope not. And if it is really the case… What’s next? Are they going to shut down my site? No worries, I will continue the battle for freedom!

Google Search Engine Removal

Here's the article:


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wwkirk

Divine

I often check to see what's up on Reddit, and sometimes get worthwhile results, but I'm skeptical there'll ever be a one-size-fits -all search solution. For example, what I don't like about videos is having to sit and wait to find out what I want know.

Maybe some "back to the future" options will emerge: Human question answerers, both ordinary folks and professionals.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
I often check to see what's up on Reddit, and sometimes get worthwhile results, but I'm skeptical there'll ever be a one-size-fits -all search solution. For example, what I don't like about videos is having to sit and wait to find out what I want know.

Maybe some "back to the future" options will emerge: Human question answerers, both ordinary folks and professionals.

I haven't done much on reddit before, however I do see the site show up in search results more often than not when I search through Duckduckgo...

Yeah I tend to agree about videos, especially when it comes to videos in search results...Typically I don't watch them to find out what I'm looking for but I do notice that when I open youtube there will be certain videos listed in the 'recommended' video list pertaining to something I've previously searched for which is odd but not surprising since I don't use Google to search for anything...

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nivek

As Above So Below
Maybe some "back to the future" options will emerge: Human question answerers, both ordinary folks and professionals.

I miss the original style of the internet before corporates and governments meddled in...

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AD1184

Celestial
I agree that it's disturbing. Also, Yahoo just seems to be utilizing Bing's search engine. Maybe Bing licensed it to them.
A bit late to the party, but this is correct. Yahoo and Duck Duck Go both use Microsoft Bing search results. It is therefore hardly surprising that they show the same results as Bing. Duck Duck Go professes to offer a "Tor exit enclave" to anonymize your Bing search results to not reveal what you are searching, even to Duck Duck Go.
 
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wwkirk

Divine
Something new and goofy from Google. (Unless it's just me.) If I'm not signed in on Google, then upon searching a USPS tracking number, it recognizes what it is, and directs me to a useful link. But if I am signed in to Google, it hasn't the faintest idea what the string of numbers means. WTF!

This seems like the opposite of common sense. Signing in to Google, to my imagination anyway, should give me more helpful, customized results, not worse results.

Maybe it's just me. Anybody else notice this quirk?
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
Something new and goofy from Google. (Unless it's just me.) If I'm not signed in on Google, then upon searching a USPS tracking number, it recognizes what it is, and directs me to a useful link. But if I am signed in to Google, it hasn't the faintest idea what the string of numbers means. WTF!

This seems like the opposite of common sense. Signing in to Google, to my imagination anyway, should give me more helpful, customized results, not worse results.

Maybe it's just me. Anybody else notice this quirk?
No but I have noted being prompted to sign in to Google quite a bit more lately
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Something new and goofy from Google. (Unless it's just me.) If I'm not signed in on Google, then upon searching a USPS tracking number, it recognizes what it is, and directs me to a useful link. But if I am signed in to Google, it hasn't the faintest idea what the string of numbers means. WTF!

This seems like the opposite of common sense. Signing in to Google, to my imagination anyway, should give me more helpful, customized results, not worse results.

Maybe it's just me. Anybody else notice this quirk?

I'm not often signed into Google so I have not seen this 'quirk', however I'll be testing this when I make my next online order...q37

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pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I'm not often signed into Google so I have not seen this 'quirk', however I'll be testing this when I make my next online order...q37

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Neither am I but I do use gmail and google drive so I assume it's my public IP address that's triggering the irritant prompting me to sign in all the time.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
My wife says Google installed an AI on her phone and it pesters her infrequently throughout the day...I have not looked at her phone yet to see what she's talking about, I'll take a look tonight...I did look at the app update list on Google Play as I do not allow my phone to auto-update, it's set to manual...So there is something on the list from Google that is new, it's a setup app for something in partnership with Android...That could be what she's talking about, I'm not installing it...

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nivek

As Above So Below
In this instance I have to side with Google. Humans should not be robots. But if anyone deserves to be sued it's probably whatever agency is responsible for the roads in that area.


I read about this accident a couple years ago and I agree, it's not Google's fault...Even with no obvious warning signage Google is not responsible for the roads it maps...That being said the guy should have been watching the road better too instead of watching the phone app...He should have seen that the bridge was out, I am sure if he was paying attention he could have quickly realized what was ahead of him or what was lacking on the road ahead...

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nivek

As Above So Below

Google removes news about UFO flying past Joe Biden’s plane

On December 10, 2023, US President Joe Biden’s plane flew into Los Angeles and, when landing at the airport, a silver UFO ball flew close to him. This strange ball, which either flew quickly across the sky or froze in one place, was caught on camera at least three times by brother cameramen Peter and Josh Solorzano, who were filming planes landing at the airport and broadcasting live on their Youtube channel LA FLIGHTS. You can read more about this in our article here.

Strange things began immediately with this incident. For some reason, the media wrote about him only at the end of December, almost two weeks later, although Solorzano’s broadcast was available to everyone from the very beginning.

And now ufologist Chris Lehto claims that the Google search engine is deliberately “cleansing” references to this incident from the Internet. According to Lehto, the video was initially published by a number of US news outlets, but then almost all of these posts were removed from Google.

In fact, if you enter Google queries in English about this incident, such as “UFO near Joe Biden’s aircraft”, “UFO Joe Biden plane”, etc., the results will be surprisingly meager.

A few links to TikTok, one link to USA Today, and a couple links to the Daily Mail and New York Post tabloids. The rest of the output will concern UFO incidents that are completely unrelated to Biden and happened years earlier. And generally no articles about this case from ufological sites and blogs.

“I think the reason it was removed from the Internet is because they (authorities) don’t want questions asked about why the F-35s didn’t identify the object,” Lehto said.

Two F-35 fighter jets were escorting Joe Biden’s plane in Los Angeles and one of them was flying very close to the presidential plane when a UFO flew past. And he really didn’t react to it at all.

By the way, to this day, three weeks later, it is not known what kind of UFO it was. Was it really an extraterrestrial device tracking the US President or someone’s balloon that had flown away?

And, very importantly, in the airspace of Los Angeles Airport (as in all other normal airports) a strict rule is observed that no unauthorized aircraft are allowed.

And if someone’s drone or an alien aircraft were spotted on the radar, then this would already be an emergency situation and a reason to temporarily ban all takeoffs and landings. Especially when your president’s plane is here.

However, at Los Angeles airport that day there were no such prohibitions or even warnings. The feeling that everyone was pretending that it was not a UFO, but just a bird.

The fact that the object was not just a child’s balloon is clear because it was very large. You simply wouldn’t notice an ordinary children’s ball at such a height. This object was at least several meters in diameter.

The Solorzano brothers agree that it was not a drone or a hot air balloon and say they have been filming airplanes here for 15 years, but have never seen such a “bizarre sight.”

And they awkwardly joke about Men in Black: “If we see a saucer or something and there are little green men walking around, we’re not going to show it live. We’re going to turn off the live feed. We’re not going to get in trouble or anything like that. We’re hoping that all the men in the black SUVs just heard it, we’re not going to record it, we’re going to close our eyes and do nothing.”


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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao1kMxfpG8w


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