thathopeyetlives:

Relatedly, there are three things I am very frustrated with about the modern internet. 

First, if you google an… unusual combination of words, such as ‘hypergolic use gundam’ (suppose you wondered whether Amuro and Char ever had to deal with nitrogen tetroxide and monomethylhydrazine), you’ll get mostly results that are missing one of the words. I often find myself putting words in quotes to make sure they appear – also there’s a tendency for Google to replace words with synonyms that are not. 

Second, searches for information about anything that’s a common article of commerce with consumerist marketing (clothes, consumer electronics, common tools, appliances, computers, DIY-tier 3D printers, firearms, jewelry, consumer gadgets, etc) tend to be totally polluted with commercial “review” sites, people who are trying to sell you something, and “educational” sites written by the marketing departments of vendors that are full of bad and slanted information and… just not the kind of information you find on independent message boards and the like. 

Third, Google is surprisingly bad at finding articles which contained specific unusual words together but you can’t remember exactly all of them.