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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

BlueSky Post.

Transcript.If you tell someone to “Google it” at this point you’re telling them to look up five ads and some AI-generated bs instead of the actual thing they want to know.

old guy takes long hit on the bong

“Back in my day, search engines used to find things besides the wreckage of late-stage capitalism.”

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This goes straight into my Hall of Fame (aka the vault i'll give to my grandsons, the ones I'll never have)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Don't put yourself down like that. Your time will come.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Searx is your friend

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

True, but try to tell someone to "DuckDuckGo it"... :-D

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I think at this point 'Google it' means pretty much the same thing as 'Photoshopped.' There's a good chance that whoever made the meme or whatever is not paying Adobe for it or pirating it and just using something like GIMP or some web-based image editor. But we still call it Photoshopped.

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