• tankfox@latte.isnot.coffee
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      1 year ago

      How will anyone ever search for anything on X? Just add X to the search term? ‘Grandmas cookies X’? ‘Cute bunny X’? ‘Pen Island X’?

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        1 year ago

        Due to a weird Google quirk, you’ll get better results if you surround the query with two additional X’s, kind of like quotation marks. For example:

        Grandmas cookies XXX

        Cute bunny xxx

        Pen Island xxx

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        Wasn’t there that whole thing about not being able to view tweets without logging in? That may affect Google’s scrapers enough that you won’t have to worry about how to phrase your search lol

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        1 year ago

        … Gosh, that has much potential to make everything sound dirty or sleezy, too. 🤦 xxx

        X.x