I don’t usually pass along Twitter gossip like it’s news, but it isn’t everyday the world’s most famous whistle-blower gets into a tissy with the underground rulers of all things search.
Let me rewind: Edward Snowden, everybody’s favorite fugitive-turned-technology-critic, shot out a seemingly off-the-cuff post on Twitter today professing his disdain for the current state of internet search:
Is it just me, or have search results become absolute garbage for basically every site? It's nearly impossible to discover useful information these days (outside the ArchWiki).
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) November 16, 2021
In what, to this reporter, appears to be a very strange flex, Barry Schwartz quote-tweeted Snowden and called on fellow search engine expert and Google employee Danny Sullivan to opine on the matter:
— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) November 16, 2021
I don’t understand exactly what’s happening here, but it looks like marketing. All I know, is that Edward Snowden was having no part of it.
No, I definitely mean search engines (among others), and Google is the worst by far, even w/o poor results:
*inaccessible to anyone who cares about their privacy (improper Tor blocking)
*hostile, scripts-required captchas
*page redirect for mandatory, scripts-required cookie— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) November 16, 2021
Background: I should make it clear that when I refer to Schwartz and Sullivan as underground rulers, I’m paying them a compliment. They’re experts on what they do –...
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