The exact figures will vary depending on what you search for, but on average Google delivers 0.0001% search results and 99.9999% censorship. You think those numbers are exaggerated, but they’re not. The Internet is no longer meaningfully searchable. It’s time to start relying more on serendipity and word of mouth.
I began to realize the extent of global totalitarianism when I realized that, despite that Google's 30 year old search engine had objectively gotten much much worse in functionality over the past 20 years - G. is still the best search engine (overall), by some margin.
Our choice as of 2025 is between a crap, and getting ever crappier, search engine - or something even worse.
Somehow, apparently, from what the masses are allowed to access; nobody in the world has been able to do better than a three decades old search algorithm, despite that the functionality of that algorithm has been deliberately all-but destroyed.
This is impossible - if the world of technological development and market competition is truly anything like it is supposed to be, as it is portrayed in public discourse.
Therefore, the catastrophic decline of Google Search and the failure to develop/ make available anything better; is conclusive evidence of the top-down political power of The System to control global usage of one of the most important single pieces of modern technology.
And if The Establishment controls this - then it must also control many other things.
Any yet, and yet... the vast majority are oblivious/ indifferent to all this!
Fatalism "we can't do anything about it" - leads on to nihilism "it doesn't really matter anyway" - then to a kind of denialism that refuses even to think about such things.
The reason is obvious, and the reason is atheistic materialism; which has it that whatever we (you and I) understand and know is of zero significance to the world; because understanding and knowing are (of themselves) merely subjective things, going on privately inside our skulls. Confined to brains; where the thoughts do nothing, and make no difference to "the world".
And the mainstream majority conclusion is that understanding and knowing does no good. In fact, they do harm, by making us miserable. (And in a finite material mortal life - there is literally nothing worse than "my" misery, now.)
The conclusion is therefore: best to go-with-the-flow, don't even try to understand; and make the best of... whatever is the current situation.
But if we inhabit a Christian divine creation; and if our personal understanding really makes a difference to objective spiritual reality --- Well, then it is well worth noticing, thinking, and trying to understand stuff.
So does it matter that the internet is no longer meaningfully searchable?
Yes it matters! Even though you and I can do "nothing" about it in a material/ political sense.
Because there is a life-lesson concerning the nature of this, our reality; there is some-thing that we ought to learn, and which it is good to understand.
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i agree with William about the positive way through. the spirits on the side of God will reply to the mechanicity of our world, in those who reject it in their souls, with increased serendipity and magic, defying the rigid paths.
Many New Agers thought that good things would just happen and all that people had to do was to align themselves with and accept the positive changes. And good things would happen without much effort, sacrifice or truly good motivations. The Internet hype was similar: just by adopting the Internet all these good things were supposed to happen. Also with no sacrifice, effort, or truly good motivations.
Well, not only did those things not happen, but the basic selling point of the Internet - access to information - has completely deteriorated.
And what's most disappointing about all this is that: 1. The old pre-Internet world has been greatly diminished because of the supposedly inevitable creative destruction that would result from the Internet, so we can't easily go back. And 2. People are still fooling themselves and building techo-utopian castles in the air, even when the promises of 20-25 years ago have failed so spectacularly.
There's no law of nature that says technology has to be good or neutral; technology is made by humans and when those humans' goals and motivations are bad, technology can just be bad.
@NLR - Very good points.
The big confusion is that in the past 30 years there has arisen a virtual reality, which is still mostly believed - and this tells people that science is better than ever, technology improving faster than ever etc etc. It also tells people that life 30 years ago was a hell of the worst sins (sexism, racism etc.).
In other words, the story is that all the promises came true. The reason there are no obvious geniuses is that nowadays there are so many geniuses that nobody stands out.
But I think the lie has been difficult to convince people about in some areas - such as pop music and movies; which people can judge for themselves, and which have obviously declined badly. The response has been to politicize all judgments of everything, so that everything old is regarded as evil - and therefore needs to be suppressed.
I remember an atheist-materialist acquaintance trying to convince (I suppose) people at large on social media that the present was the best time in history and getting better, and he “proved” this by…citing the number of patents filed in Current Year that related to antibiotics.
I would say “you can’t make this stuff up” but apparently you can!
There is nothing to search anymore because free website platfroms like geocities are gone. Its all just corporate trash now.
@Mia - Crazy. Whereas the reality is that all the major effective and safe antibiotics were discovered fifty-plus years ago.
Bruce, it’s hard to hear “safe and effective” as anything but parody now. It’s the new “stunning and brave.”
@WmJas - But there Was a time when it was true enough; and that is how They repeatedly get away with the actuality of un-safe and in-effective - and un-necessary in the first place...
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