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fawkedifiknow's avatar

Merriam-Webster says the slang term for a face - puss- is spelled thusly. NBD, because it’s origin is an Irish word, spelled “pus”. We are both right.

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Regret's avatar

There is plenty wrong with the search engine algorithms, but one-directional bias is not a part of it.

My beef is that they have become too precise. 20 years ago google was different. As you went further down the results you got stranger and stranger results usually you started encountering completely unrelated subjects before you got to the 30th result. Nowadays you just find more of the same. This is one of the ways in which our perception bubbles are shrinking which reduces tolerance for deviants and weirdos. I liked finding the weird stuff! It taught me a lot.

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