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It's such a bummer. Whenever I'm bored with an internet connection it reminds me of that. It used to be I'd think of something I don't know, Google it and look at all the pages different people made on the subject, whatever it may be from quicksand to medabots, you could find like a dozen at minimum websites made by just like...people who liked thst shit enough to make a website. They all had their style and voice. It felt truly limitless and like there was alway something out there waiting that you'd really be able to dig into.
Insee vestiges now ang again for s popular prior to 2014 or so. If I google pokemon, I get Serebii and Bulbapedia and PokemonDB. And it's an absolute delight! I googe lile Zelda TotK and I get game8, gamewith, IGN, which I get for almost every game. And those sites are fucking garbage that have to insert 40 paragraphs before they answer your question.
"Whats the fastest way to grind coins" for a game will get you results about how useful coins are, what you can buy with coins, why you might want to grind coins, other currencies in the game, then 3 sentences in the middle somewhere that actually answer the question.
Recipes are also being completely wrecked by SEO and monetisation garbage. If I want a recipe for chocolate cake I have to scroll through page after page of irrelevant text. And it's not a gastronomical essay, which is an enjoyable literary genre in its own right, no it is all pointless filler text that only exists as a place to put keywords for search engines and to have something to put between the ads.
Sometimes, if you're lucky, it's just the recipe broken down with advice for ingredients and the like.
Oh you want a recipe for cookies? Let me tell you about how using agave syrup instead of sugar cured my sister in law's covid
Remember how cool Stumbleupon was in the beginning, when it was all that kind of shit? Hit a button and get a random website that some random person made on like the evolution of horse manes or some shit. Then, like everything good, it got bought up by some megacorp and started redirecting to sponsored content.