• @mindbleach
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    23 months ago

    Hadn’t considered that search engines would ruin themselves to feed Engagemagog, but in hindsight it’s hardly surprising.

    That’d also explain when you show up on a front page or focus on a search bar, evanescent outline of a thought trying to take form through your fingertips, and the stupid goddamn website goes Football scores?! Celebrity babies?! Dearborn Michigan?! Large Hadron Collider?! Houseboats?!?!

    • @brbposting
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      23 months ago

      Hey, eerbody else is searching The Kardashians* today so maybe you should too!

      *to be replaced with non-aged cultural reference

      • @mindbleach
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        3 months ago

        Those last three were real examples when I checked Google just now. They’re not relevant to anything or anywhere in my life. I don’t even get it. I can’t imagine how they’re some hot new thing, today specifically. If they were just trying to shotgun people’s hyperfixations, there’d be more about transportation infrastructure and gacha games.

        • @brbposting
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          23 months ago

          Interesting, the first two of the final three terms are in the news right now:

          Houseboat is somewhat surprising. They have made some San Francisco Bay news in the past week: