What do you think have we taken for granted before it was enshittified? (kbin.melroy.org)

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Dollar Tree.

It used to have been an unreal experience witnessing the existence of these stores when they came out. Everything for a $1. No joke. The quality of some things have had corners cut and the quantity might've been laughable, but there was a good solid purpose for these stores.

And then I started seeing the signs after a few good solid years of shopping there. The first sign was how they stopped selling eggs. This was before the Bird Flu. They stopped selling eggs because they simply couldn't afford to buy stock and then the price hike to $1.25 happened.

And now they've hiked the prices again to $1.50 for some products in a handful of stores. Additionally, they've incorporated items going from $2 ~ $15 so they have long lost the role and title of being the most affordable places to shop.

Gone were the days.

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[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 97 points 15 hours ago

Google Search. Or search in general. Now it's all shit and you have to convince it that you actually want to search what you want and not what it thinks you want. Which is sometimes hard and other times impossible. I miss Google Search, it seriously was the best.

[-] Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

I'm sorry I came to this late, but this one's really the best answer.

We talk a lot about how kids are struggling to recognize fake news, find reputable sources, etc... but I also think about how hard it is to find decent sources these days! I honestly can't comprehend how kids are learning to do research projects and so on without the ability to easily search for stuff on the internet.

And while there's lots of stuff on this threat that was cool while it lasted, I think search engines are one of those things where we never even considered the possibility it would change. Businesses fail, prices go up, experiences get skimped on, but search engines were goddamn magic. They just were. Why would anyone ever want to make them worse? The idea never even crossed out minds.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 29 points 14 hours ago

Man, Google search back in the day was great. No search categories like images, shopping, videos, etc. Just give it a query and you get what you wanted. God had no idea what was on the second page of results because the first page had what you wanted in the first half. Your ability to find what you wanted depended on your ability to use the search terms and modifiers.

[-] hansolo@lemm.ee 15 points 14 hours ago

The week I changed from HotBot to Google was a revelation. The jump from barely scraping the surface of the web to being able to find anything was like finally getting the full promise of the internet. Can't be undersold how great Google was from 2001-03 until around 2013-16.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

It was so good that "googling it" is still in common parlance, even though the phrase has baggage and isn't used in the same case-closed tones as it once was.

[-] hansolo@lemm.ee 1 points 47 minutes ago

Oh man, and when all the Boolean operators were revealed to work on search, doing some "Google-Fu" was laughably easy, but blew people away. Back before there was so much noise, anything online was possible to find.

[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 3 hours ago

I haven’t used Google in a few years (in fact all Google servers are blocked on my network) but I still can’t stop saying “I’ll Google it.”

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

It goes deeper IMO. Search no longer respects the user as an autonomous individual with self determination. It has stollen your digital citizenship.

[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Definitely did not take this for granted. Between 2004 and 2010ish it was remarkable how effective Google was. It’s still alright, just not as good as before.

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