things that are difficult to Google

what time the movie Stream is playing

When there is a gig at a venue, what time the bands usually start rather than what time the doors open.

what time the The The show starts

This Russian court

A Russian court has ruled that Google owes around $20 decillion in fines for blocking the content of Russian media stations. That’s $20 trillion trillion trillion.

For comparison, Google is only worth around $2 trillion. The World Bank estimates global GDP to be around $100 trillion. This means the Russian court ordered Google to pay more money than there is on Earth.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/russian-court-fines-google-20000000000000000000000000/

Why not just order them to pay a googol dollars? Seems like a missed opportunity.

Lol at url

I'm currently writing a bunch of blog posts about airliners. One complication is that during the 1960s and early 1970s "airbus" was a generic term for a certain class of airliner - large, cheap seats, not necessarily long range - and it's really hard to find out about the concept because Airbus gets in the way. There's a small thread about it here at Airliners.net, home of the angry middle-aged American man. Beyond that it seemed to live and die in the pages of Flight International.

For example the Douglas DC-10 and Lockheed L-1011 were often called airbuses, even though they were made by Douglas and Lockheed:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/uY4AAOSwqo5is6oh/s-l300.jpg

And to confuse things even more there was a brief period in the late 1960s when the Airbus A-300 was referred to as the Eurobus, viz Jean-Jaques Burnel's "Freddie Laker (Concorde and Eurobus)", from The Euroman Cometh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns-fw7a16Gw

In the early 00s, I was in a band called The Results.

I thought this would be easy but have been trying to find a picture of the charity shop with the creepy window display of the Queen and Paddington leading her to the underworld and can only find palace pr about donating teddy bears to a children's charity

thought this would be a semi-joke revive about how everything is difficult to Google now

I tried a Google search today. I generally use DuckDuckGo, so it had been a few weeks. The page of search results was an unholy mess, totally unusable, because it was using AI to guess my motivations for making that search, so instead of showing me web pages that matched what I asked to see, it answered a bunch of questions I didn't ask and showed me lists of videos and images that I didn't want to look at. iow, useless crap!

I was wholly unsuccessful a few months ago trying to search the name of the woman who says "Boo!" in Arrested Development's "People Everyday" video. Tried numerous search terms, but, as the thread title says, it was a difficult thing to Google. I probably should have just done an image search till I found her name.

xp clicking on "Web" gets rid of a lot of that crap.

Weird to see this thread pop up a day after I listened to a 20 Thousand Hertz podcast about what they call an ungooglable filler utterance, "the five dah."

https://www.20k.org/episodes/blahblahblah

the 1970 metromedia tv movie kind of thing called "1985"

but yeah frankly anything these days, the internet is a morass of paywalled shit, copyright strikes, and demonetization

my paranoid hoarding of everything digital i could get my hands on is starting to pay off i guess

i'm not happy about it

I know it's pointless nostalgia, but... There was a site I used all the time, essentially an intellectual library, organised alphabetically. Each home letter, say F, would lead to a series of headings (Freud etc) and a series of genuinely interesting links from there. I remember lectures from Birmingham University, still the best introductions to Freud, Jung and Lacan I've ever read; or lectures on mysticism from Chicago University.

I doubt it exists any more and fuck knows what I'd search for. I went as far as printing a bunch of stuff out but that's lost somewhere. I've got some old Delicious links but it's not in there either.

i doubt it's what you're thinking of, but in the past i have appreciated the stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, which is organized similarly

https://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html

Thanks for the link, budo. It wasn't that site (it had the wild energy of the old internet, for the better, mainly).