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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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google has decided for me that “highest” is a synonym for “tallest”, so when I search for “tallest nobel prize winner”, I get results for the countries with the most winners per capita

also the “best” nobel winners, because that’s totally the same thing, right?

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Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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Sweevo posted:

i hate how ebay items are allowed to show up in google, even though every single one of them is for an item that sold 3 years ago and redirects to the ebay front page

this one is actually useful to me sometimes when I’m looking for information on obscure equipment and it’s in the google index/cache, but they get me on the other side of this by aggressively pruning stuff I want from the cache the moment the link rots. and of course the wayback machine’s spiders are much slower than google’s and never caught it in the first place

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

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2022: google continues to deteriorate



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It would not be until the Qing Dynasty that variolation in China became part of public health, rather than a private family practice. Events were set in motion when the Shunzi Emperor succumbed to smallpox in 1662 and a succession crisis arose. Normally the throne would pass to the late emperor's eldest son, but he was blind in one eye and had yet to contract and survive smallpox, that disease which claimed the live of so many children, especially those of Manchu ethnicity. Thus, for the sake of dynastic stability, power passed to the second eldest son, who had survived and thereby acquired immunity to smallpox by mixing powdered smallpox scabs into soup.

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