Imagine if every time you looked up anything in the Yellow Pages or encyclopedia, there was this big section at the top of the page called "Notes from Gary" where some guy named Gary who seems to know about 20% less than the average person just sorta gets to say whatever he wants about the subject, no matter how irrelevant it is.

This is what it's like to use Google now.

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@nathan now my wife wants to document examples of this in the wild with

@askennard @nathan I agree with the broader point but… this example is not wrong? It even says “Apache Kafka” not “Franz Kafka”, and there’s a link to two other Kafkas above that text. If this is an example of the problem, what’s the problem? I’m no Google apologist, but it’s not Google’s fault more people are interested in Apache Kafka than Franz Kafka. When you search on one word, what else can they summarize besides the most popular result involving that word?

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