If you don't know what you're doing, the internet is already like that. The amount of people who have tried googling shit when I ask them a question and they regurgitate marketing spiel is unreal.
what I find annoying is when I google a word I want a definition for and a company with that name dominates the results. It's like when singers make songs out of phrases and ruin the phrase for everyone. Get all this capitalism out of my language I have to live in this language
what I find annoying is when I google a word I want a definition for and a company with that name dominates the results.
Almost any word I bother to look up is first and foremost some bullshit bazinga techbro startup according to browser searches. I have to insist "dictionary" as part of the search to have a chance of not getting a bunch of startup shit peddled at me instead.
I think that shit should be illegal. Like they should start arresting Google execs until they finally fix it so that googling a word without context doesn't assault you with information about some goddamn corporation using that word as their name
I don't know how I became information literate and I don't know how to convey to other people how shallow their information gathering process is. So many people don't realize that the first 4+ results on every search are just ads and I frequently see them click uncritically. So many can't discern an internet equivalent of an infomercial from a real source. People OBVIOUSLY can't see when something right in front of them is naked propaganda just so long as it's labeled with the correct brand.
Like, I trained myself reflexively to not even look at ads, so now it's almost second nature to me, but I feel like that started as an instinctual yet active effort of small rebellion? I've no idea how to pass that instinct along