Google does it again (Stop using it, please)

google ^ | 6/22/18 | Celerity

[vikingd00d]

>>personally, I like duckduckgo.com.

plus, they have a bang-search for freerepublic built in.

“!freep duckduckgo” :)

[metmom]

I use duckduckgo but don’t like the search results it gives me as much as what Google gives me.

However, I plan on continuing to use duckduckgo and put up with it.

[upchuck]

If anybody asks me, I recommend Slimjet as a browser with the AdBlockPlus, ReaderView, and Ghostery add-ons and DuckDuckGo for searches. Google sucks.

[cgbg]

So all it is is Kill White People P0rn for those who get off on killing white people, and can read.

Actually there is a whole "kill all white people" science fiction sub-genre. But for the reason you noted there was not a best-seller among them. :-)

[publius911]

“Second rate” is a big strong—her novels are good imho, but Google’s attempt to idolize her is way over the top for sure.

I can't decide which is more dangerous, violence inducing and hateful...
Fake News?
Fake history?
Fake "ancestry.com" glorious feel good crap about African greatness that never was and never can be?

[rdl6989]

From your link:

Scholarship Fund

The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship enables writers of color to attend one of the Clarion writing workshops, where Octavia got her start. Visit the fund page for more info.

That’s racist.

[Flick Lives]

Use Google, just avoid clicking on any of their links to sites which are marked as ads (word “ad” appearing in a small square). The same company’s site without the ad link will appear later down in the search results.

Use them, but starve them of their ad dollars.

[publius911]

her novels are good imho

Common mistake.
I would rather have an "I like it" as that IS your opinion humble or not, and as adults we can decide "good" for ourselves.

[FreedomPoster]

Does any search engine usefully index Free Republic any more? Google and Duck sure don’t.

[AzNASCARfan]

I was going to put up a post asking everybody the same thing... AVOID GOOGLE I read an article awhile back about how Liberals are destroying our republic by not accepting Trumps legitimate election and thought this question "Why are democrats trying to destroy our democracy" might direct me back to it... I was floored when I got Googles results... Last search I ever make there. Here is side by side comparison of Google and Duck Duck Go for that question. (Yes, I know we are a Republic, but that is how I remembered the article titled)

[AzNASCARfan]

Try this again, I had a clickable link that would enlarge in my preview... This is probably going to screw up anybody looking at this post with a phone... Sorry.

[BlackbirdSST]

We did a little search comparison here on FR after the topic came up about Google’s anti-eurocentric search results and we found that duckduckgo was giving very very similar search results.

I can't say this for ALL alternate search engines but startpage (I use) completes your search using google. They just hide that its you from the googlers. It should come as no surprise that you would get similar results.

[bkopto]

"By writing black female protagonists into science fiction and bringing her acute appraisal of real-world power structures to bear on the imaginary worlds she created, Butler became ...

Hold it right there. Octavia Butler is black. Science fiction was created by whites. This is cultural appropriation.

[deport]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

[TBP]

What’s Google?

[TBP]

Big Internet needs to be broken up. I’m not a huge fan of antitrust, but this might be a really good use for it.

[gaijin]

Most annoying is RETRO-afroism:

Black Vikings, black leprachauns, black knights, black cowboys, etc.

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

If Slimjet blocks all adds why AdBlockPlus?
And I use ReminderFox. I’m going to try Slimjet for a bit. Need to get ReminderFox hooked up to it if possible.

[reformedliberal]

I recall her worst, which she allowed to be published once, and then refused that it ever be published again, because it was so bad.

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Title? I didn’t know that and it increases my respect for her. Not every author recognizes their own stinkers. The best of the best produce them, from time to time.

I read her plots as more sociological dystopian than hatred of western civilization. Look at the present Deep State situation. It pervades everything, including what we currently acknowledge as western civilization. I can see an outsider (which is how I’d characterize Butler in her time) looking for ways to *overcome*.

Heinlein, who was a patriot,could be quite biting when writing about political constructs.

[marktwain]

The book is “Survivor”

https://www.amazon.com/Survivor-Doubleday-Science-Fiction-Octavia/dp/0385133855

Butler considered it really, really, bad.

I agree with her. It was filled with idea after idea that was simply not believable.

Good science fiction takes one big, difficult to believe thing, (such as faster than light drive, or reliable ESP) and builds a whole world or storyline from it.

But being confronted by unbelievable thing after unbelievable thing, after unbelievable thing just converts science fiction into a series of “miracles”.