I use search engines for three main purposes:
1. Seeing if I have more hits than the other Brian Diamond (the comedian) who is definitely not me, but whose marginal accomplishments are more search-worthy than my marginal accomplishments.
2. Trying to find naked people on Google Street View.
3. Answering important questions that pop into my head, such as “Do whales feel envy?”
Pretty simple stuff, and yet, somehow the fancy algorithms have failed me when it comes to getting to the bottom of this whale-envy business, as the below search results clearly show.
If search engines can’t help me answer questions like this, what good are they?
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