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@servelan@newsie.social
2024-03-26 18:06:32

The other failure of the Republican investigation into Biden - The Washington Post
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

“We’re going to fix the laws on influence-peddling because this is getting out of control,” Comer said on Fox News nearly a year ago. “If we don’t have tighter ethics laws, we’re going to have countries like China that are going to come in and buy off relatives of high-ranking government officials.” He insisted that he and his colleagues were “very concerned that [Biden’s] family was getting this money because of things he was doing, both as vice president and president.” Even then, he only me…

Analysis | The other failure of the Republican investigation into Biden
At the outset, the probe was ostensibly about influence peddling. Recent weeks have reinforced that Trump remains the most important target of such an inquiry.

@cdarwin@c.im
2024-03-09 20:33:00

There’s a hidden Google search setting that makes searches more precise
Turn on #verbatim #mode in Google searches
On the search results page, look for a menu that says Tools. It may be on the far right side of the screen. 
• On desktop, look on the far right side of the page, to the right of any buttons …

How to Make Google Show You the Good Search Results Again
Off-target search results are getting more and more common, and we can only lay part of the blame on the results being cluttered with AI-generated junk and human-generated SEO-bait. I don’t have a fix for what people (and bots) are writing, nor can I reach into Google’s ranking algorithm and shuffle the pages around. But I can tell you how to get Google to actually search for the thing you typed in.

@cybeardjm@masto.ai
2024-03-10 01:09:18

How to Make Google Show You the Good Search Results Again
There’s a hidden setting that makes searches more precise: the "Verbatim" option
lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-get

How to Make Google Show You the Good Search Results Again
Off-target search results are getting more and more common, and we can only lay part of the blame on the results being cluttered with AI-generated junk and human-generated SEO-bait. I don’t have a fix for what people (and bots) are writing, nor can I reach into Google’s ranking algorithm and shuffle the pages around. But I can tell you how to get Google to actually search for the thing you typed in.