The Cool Down Is Not Down with the Google
April 17, 2026
Another dinobaby post. No AI unless it is an image. This dinobaby is not Grandma Moses, just Grandpa Arnold.
My feed output a link from an outfit I know little about. It may be a smart robot or a wily humanoid. The write up did catch my attention. Its title? A grabber:
However, Google does offer a somewhat wonky “advanced search” function. Do you know how to locate it? See the answer at the foot of this blog post. Note that BearBlog in lovely South Africa thinks that my essays are written by AI systems. (Sorry Lemon Squeezy. You are lost in the Afrikaans semantic wilderness. Your words about censorship and your actions are like a person who thinks Google search intentionally misleads people.)
Many of the OSING crowd end up relying on Google or tools that suck information from the Google. Some venture into the murky water of Russian language indexes or the really slippery Chinese Web indexes. But for many professionals, the Google is the source. (One might ask, “What happens if Google does not index something indexes certain sites on a relaxed schedule? The answer could be, “That information does not exist for billions of users. Ponder that for information shaping opportunities, please.)
Now back to this assertion that “Google searches are intentionally unusable to increase AI usage.” The assumption many people make is that Google indexes the world’s information. Bad assumption. Furthermore, people assume that Google outputs are “objective.” Bad assumption. Others believe that Google is a computer and, therefore, is just right. Bad assumption.
The write up points out that a person named @bwags asserted that Google search outputs are not particularly helpful. Then the article does a flip and a lateral arabesque, stating:
Wagner’s viral post Saturday coincided with a high-profile collision between real life and digital life — a 20-year-old California woman sued Instagram’s parent company, Meta, along with Google’s YouTube, alleging that the platforms knew their products were harmful and habit-forming.
Yikes, is this a suggestion that useless search results are harmful in the same way YouTube rabbit holes about see-thru clothing and Facebook’s displaying posts about not eating in order to be buff?
The write then pivots to “fleece lined pants.” I know that you may not follow the logic, and I must admit I am not sure what the Cool Down article is communicating or trying to communicate. The fleece thing surfaces in this passage:
“It used to be you went online to search ‘fleece lined work pants 30×30’ and [Google] returned a handful of results that met your criteria,” it began. “Thanks to technological improvements, that is no longer possible.”
Okay, I navigated to Google.com and entered this query. Note that I was logged in as an actual Google user who pays for assorted services. I want to point out that a few of these are pretty much useless; for example, Gemini, the YouTube autoplay function, and hit-and-miss Mandiant/Wiz announcements about security at the same time DeepMind is working to create models specifically designed to find software issues and identify these to Mandiant/Wiz and some bad actors.
Here’s what Google produced on April 10, 2026, at 1005 am US Eastern time:
Yep, fleece lined pants. Good enough for a normcore Google user. A person to the right of the bell curve “center” would use a better query than “men fleece lined pants.” Less than two percent of humans on earth using Google would navigate to the advanced Google search page and specify exactly what is required to get information on fleece lined pants. These seem pretty much the same to me: Some type of allegedly “real” or “fake fur” lining, high prices, and weird colors that will get a person shot if wandering in the woods in deer hunting season. Remember, please, I live in rural Kentucky. If you live in Manhattan, Oakland, or Woodside in Chicago, you may want to opt for a different type of garment; for example, one that defines Yee Yee’s efforts. (To learn more about Yee Yee, click here for information.)
My view of this article is that Google does have its own agenda, and its often clueless users have another. Guess where the Cool Down falls?
Google Advanced Search nestles in sparkling wonkiness on this landing page.
PS. Do you think that any large language model writes how I do? If so, you qualify for a job working with Lemon Squeezy.
Stephen E Arnold, April 17, 2026
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