Google for information about an owl found only in Australia.

First result, a blog claiming: “Ninox strenua is important to the Native Americans of the US”

Every single result is website that all have the same layout.

  • Future_Honkey [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    The Internet is becoming less useful and searching things (which i once took pride in being good at) is now a slow terrible process of siftin thru alla trash. Yeah I’m pretty mad about it

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      it is infuriating how heavily I have to lean on hard earned academic research skills to find numbers (not even fancy science parameters, but ingredient ratios in recipes) that even duckduckgo returned reliable sources for on the first page in fucking 2016