Is The Internet Shrinking?

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TacoTaco
TacoTaco
April 11, 2022 4:51 pm

No need for book burning…

Vigilant
Vigilant
  TacoTaco
April 11, 2022 11:52 pm

Nope, not when books are no longer valued anyway. Now that knowledge is digital, it’s disappearance is referred to as bit burning.

Melty
Melty
April 11, 2022 6:05 pm

I watched all but the last 7 minutes and like what she is saying as I have noticed it too. A decade or so ago I was moving every couple of years and decided to toss a lot of reference books with the idea that then you can find it on-line. Nowadays, I start looking for the info and can’t find it readily if at all. Same with videos and such that are no longer available.

Information is now perishable. The information she says that should exist probably doesn’t. Servers have a finite capacity of storage and cost to maintain that data exists. Hence, toss it to open up for other data that is now cherry picked for consumption/programming of the sheeple. Not a bad watch. I just wish people could quit ending sentences with right these days.

B_MC
B_MC
April 11, 2022 6:05 pm

From March 2019….

Did You Know Google Now Limits Search

Here’s something new I learned at the Computers in Libraries conference this week.

Google may claim to have indexed a million or more results for the term you’re searching for, but they can’t actually show you more than a tiny fraction of the results. Gary Price, founder and publisher of InfoDocket, told me that Google now limits the actual number of search results it shows you to anywhere between 300 and 400.

I’ve tested it, and he’s right. My searches petered out after the 330th, 349th, and 307th result. The other million or so search results that Google claimed to have found may as well never have existed.

It appears this state of affairs has existed since August 2016, but this is the first I have heard about it. I’ve rarely gotten as high as the 150th result before, much less 300. Usually I give up by the third page and instead refined my search terms to narrow the search.

https://the-digital-reader.com/2019/03/27/did-you-know-google-now-limits-search-results-to-only-300-to-400-links/

The reference to August 2016….

This ‘feature’ of google – and other search engines – applies to the web interface too. The claimed number of matches on the first page is not reflected in the actual number of results returned.

For example, if you search Google for “Systematic Literature Review” it will claim a few milion results on the first page, but if you go to page 3 (at 100 results/page) it will ‘revise’ the estimate to 200-300 results.

This seems too high in the initial estimate but may be a problem with filtering large datasets and is possibly forgivable. However it is definitely too small a number of actual results returned for this topic. Bing and DuckDuckGo are similar. Google Scholar claims 11k or so results but returns a server error if you try going beyond 1000.

Speculating: this might be in order to encourage people to change their search terms, rather than return a huge number of results that are then filtered programmatically locally (which is what I would like to do!).

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41284501/google-search-results-limits

Ben Lurken
Ben Lurken
  B_MC
April 11, 2022 6:57 pm

I’m an SEO. I’ve seen this forever regarding pages related to businesses. But I think Google deindexes content they consider to be duplicated and low quality especially if it’s machine generated. But even if the pages are deindexed they are still included in the total claimed.

Anonymous
Anonymous
April 11, 2022 6:38 pm

Five minutes in, I thought it would be a rough slog listening to her for 47 minutes, but stuck with it.
I found it interesting. The wall in Truman? Reminded me of the quote from Zappa.

Makes a good case for printing out hard copy of posts (and comments) that are brutal truths quickly becoming at risk of disappearing.

For example, search results about the LV shooting have been scrubbed to the bare minimum still being available.
Any deep dives into the facts and evidence of what really happened would be like the proverbial needle in a haystack search.
There are false flags, and then there are cover ups via outrageous distractions, deceitfully callous.

Melty
Melty
  Anonymous
April 11, 2022 6:58 pm

Exactly, try to find the vid of the Greensboro Massacre or some of the JFK stuff you’ve found before. Even Johnny Rebel singing Coontown is hard to locate.

Ghost
Ghost
  Anonymous
April 11, 2022 8:39 pm

Still listening, but fascinated.

kfg
kfg
April 11, 2022 7:04 pm

You will know nothing and you will be happy.

Undeniable
Undeniable
April 11, 2022 7:21 pm

It’s been broken for a while and it’s getting worse.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Undeniable
April 11, 2022 10:42 pm

It ain’t broken.

I said on another topic not too, too long ago: the internet is a trap.

It has been intended as a trap for many years now. The clip of Eric Schmidt in the Truthstream video above is, I believe, well over a decade old.

I’ll see if I can find the video I also posted a while back about trapping wild hogs. If you’re familiar with the concept you’ll know what I’m talking about.

The internet is the circular setup of corral panels, your smart phone is the food trough, and the digital ID/vaccine pass/digital currency is simply the gate that slams shut when enough of the hogs are comfortably within the trap.

The internet is a trap. (repeat 3x)

Vigilant
Vigilant
  Anonymous
April 11, 2022 11:39 pm

The Internet is a trap. That’s why it’s referred to as the net and the World Wide Web. The joke is on us.

Ghost
Ghost
April 11, 2022 8:54 pm

That is eye-opening, Steph. We are seeing things we would have never believed ten years ago.

Ghost
Ghost
April 11, 2022 9:08 pm

I’ve noticed that too, but didn’t realize it was part of the censorship.

i forget
i forget
April 11, 2022 10:48 pm

The polyester moral fiber is what shrinks in the brainwash…& the synaptic spandex goes flaccid, too.

I read about Eastern State Penitentiary. Its original constructions, Schuylkill stone, are still there. Successive additions & “improvements” have long since fallen to ruin. Like the charging cradle for this crappy Logitech mouse that just died.

Planned obsolescence is a fraudulent feature ~ fraud is a feature ~ not a bug. Lifespans, “product cycles,” are “monetized” by the same reaper BOC sings you shouldn’t fear. There’s a unibomber designer at the heart of every product, service, country & most “consumers” keepin’ up with the jones-monkeys on their backs as best they can.

Vigilant
Vigilant
April 11, 2022 11:45 pm

Here’s an LOL: I used to read those End User License Agreements. They are mind numbing. After a while I gave up and just started accepting the terms without reading them. What have we been agreeing to in them EULA’s?

Ghost
Ghost
April 12, 2022 9:53 am

Stephanie, could you look into the facts behind the fiction on this substack post?

https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/great-reset-tales-ukraine-reddit-battalion?s=r

There are so many disturbing aspects to these volunteer soldiers, kicked out of the army for being straight and white with a penchant for blowing things up and banging hot soldier chicks. As many as 20,000 foreign volunteers?

This is a compelling story, as well… am curious if you know anyone who volunteered? https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3v4xj/joining-ukrainian-foreign-legion

RiNS
RiNS
April 12, 2022 11:58 am

What an excellent video Stephanie. I subbed to channel and now listening to series called “The Trust Game”

Thank you for posting!